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Which makes the town's main social event, the annual Eucla Golf Day in May, something of a wingding. They've even had clergymen from Esperance, 900 km away, drive in for the bash, which last year raised $A5,000 for the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Considering the state of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fair Way to Go for Golf | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

There were two reasons Max Nevis, like most other Americans who live beyond the Beltway, could not bring himself to watch much of the Republican wingding staged in his very own South Philadelphia neighborhood last week. No. 1, he cares too much about serious political discourse to waste time on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republican Convention: The Betting Man's Pundit | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

It was a "here goes" kind of week for Dole, who had sent another torpedo into the conventional wisdom that she is far too cautious to do or say anything bold and original. That came the night before, at a big G.O.P. wingding, when she surprised even some of her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Elizabeth Unplugged | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

Last week Disney's fanfare machine worked overtime to observe two special occasions. Tokyo Disneyland marked its fifth anniversary with a song-and-dance wingding featuring 800 performers and a nighttime parade of 44 twinkly floats. In Los Angeles the animated personalities of Mickey, Minnie and Donald frolicked on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do You Believe In Magic? | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

Paying Up. The bride's mother and father shelled out for the Zhivago wingding, but--fretful parents everywhere, take heart--such a practice has become modified of late, especially as couples getting married tend to be a little older and already established. Says Rita Bloom Smith, president of a wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Scenes From a Marriage | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

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