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Crimson hopes for a second consecutive national squash championship suffered a severe blow Saturday when a vengeful Tiger team felled the racquetmen by a score of 6-3.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Shatters Squash Title Hopes | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

Many Chinese, particularly those who suffered during the Cultural Revolution, remained totally unmoved by Jiang Qing's defense. "They wouldn't let me go to the trial as an observer," said one middle-level bureaucrat who spent four years in Peking's Qincheng Prison during the Cultural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: A Leader's Rise, a Widow's Fall | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

Neil Simon likes old times-the screwball comedy of the 1930s, to be precise-enough to revive the tradition, or at least prop up the corpse. In Seems Like Old Times (S.L.O.T. for short), he has updated Leo McCarey's delicious romantic farce The Awful Truth, this time with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Comedy: Big Bucks, Few Yuks | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

At the sad, debilitating end of the Boer War, three Australian soldiers are brought to court-martial. The charge: murdering some Boer "civilians" they have captured in a vengeful raid, along with a German missionary whose death has provoked a murmur of international reproach. The soldiers' commander, Lord Kitchener...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Brass vs. Grunt | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

3) Finally, nobody ever really wants a scandal cleared up. Uncleared-up, a scandal is like radio: it allows the imagination to rove like a child in a flower field, especially when an office romance is involved, and the imagination may cavort among infinite possibilities of after-hour adventures behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Letting Bad Enough Alone | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

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