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Leap Bomb bound Bomb frolic zig and zag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bang Bong Bing | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...subject of traffic regulations, Brennan warned students not to "weave, zig-zag, or cut across in moving traffic," and said that bikes must be parked "in permissable parking areas and not on public sidewalks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chief Warns Students To Register Bicycles | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

...colored reminiscences about the good, bold days of jazz. (Willie's earliest jazz school: the brickyards of Haverstraw, N.Y.). The Lion roars too much and plays too little, but a couple of his own compositions-Echo of Spring, with its lacy embroidery over a rolling bass, and Zig-Zag, with its propulsive drive-are worth the price of the album...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jazz Records | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...year Dior and his cohorts pass the word lo the American fashion industry that sheaths are the thing. Sheaths it is. Madame America fills her closets with sheaths, trims her figure appropriately, then what? Next year she finds she's supposed to zig where she used to zag. What to do? Send off the sheaths to the Salvation Army and engage a masseuse to rearrange her bumps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 25, 1957 | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

Smashed Idol. In Communist shop-logic, every affirmative has in it the seed of its own negative, and every zig its zag, so there were many experts to say that nothing had in fact changed. It was true that Russia's new masters had only reviled the old tyrant in order to perpetuate his tyranny. But there was a new face in Russia, and a new song on its lips. The old song of Stalin's was a menacing basso proclaiming a defiant people encircled by a hostile world; now a mellower baritone pleasingly rendered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The New Line | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

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