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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What Could Have Been | 12/12/2002 | See Source »

...world's major political figures trip through: Presidents and kings, commissars and emerging Third World statesmen. One anecdote relates that the young Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama were missing at the house during a visit. The spiritual leaders of Tibetans were found in the backyard playing around a wigwam with the Gandhi boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Death's Return Visit | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

...would be a crime if I didn't mention my favorite tense joke at this point: "A man dreams one night about being a teepee. The next night he dreams he is a wigwam. The next night, he's a a teepee again. The next night, wigwam. Teepee. Wigwam. Teepee. Wigwam. The psychiatrist says 'I know your problem--you're too tense...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Placing the Blame for Tension | 5/19/1989 | See Source »

From time immemorial-or at least since the first U.S. census was taken in 1790-the head of household has been identified for every house, hovel, plantation, apartment, coop, condominium, igloo and wigwam to which an intrepid census taker could wend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: Headless | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

...Gregory's, for example, but Flip sneaks it in and shakes loose a laugh before the audience can object. After telling a story about Indians, he asks: "How would you like it if you bought a $50,000 house and somebody came along and put up a wigwam next to it?" Or: "This is my riot jacket-I got it in Buffalo out of a window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When You're Hot, You're Hot | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

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