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...this entry, Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau has never been balmier, and Dyan Cannon gives new blouse to the word blowsy as a sharpshooting businessman's castoff mistress. The movie has more plot than Birth of a Nation, and there is no sign anywhere (save during the credits) of a panther; but those who have battered their thought processes through four previous PPs could care less: they just want more, if possible without paraquat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bright Clouseau | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

...surprisingly, the new league has introduced a mini-galaxy of new stars. Bell Quarterback Jim ("King") Corcoran, a castoff from five N.F.L. teams, has finally found a home in Philadelphia with his shrewd passing game. In Birmingham, Matthew Reed, a black quarterback from Grambling, replaced the injured George Mira for two games and coolly led the undefeated Americans to late fourth-quarter wins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gaining a Cleathold | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

When Csonka, Kiick and Warfield signed with the Toronto Northmen for a combined total of $3 million, everybody figured the World Football League was on its way a lot quicker than the old AFL. After all, the AFL was knee-deep in pro wrestlers, cowboys, antique Olympians, mystics, and castoff construction workers for a good part of their first five years of existence. Back then, no one thought of tapping Paul Hornung or Bart Starr on the shoulder and asking him if he would be interested in mere cash. These were gods and they were playing in the big leagues...

Author: By Tim Carlson, | Title: Light Whitening | 5/9/1974 | See Source »

...cost $2.6 billion and tapped the best of American technology; yet Skylab sometimes behaved like a castoff from a used-car lot. First it lost vital shielding and an electricity-generating solar wing. Then its steering rockets per formed so badly that NASA thought of sending up rescuers to evacuate its three-man crew. Finally, two of its stabilizing gyros faltered, threatening to send the 100-ton space station yawing and pitching like an angry whale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: Taking It for Granted | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

...books on the art of handmade home building. His present house, a redwood-shingled geodesic dome flanked by a three-story watchtower, is a dumpyard special. "I must have washed 10,000 board feet to get off the chicken and horse dung and spilled wine," says Kahn about his castoff supplies. But he has no complaints about the price, just $8,500 for the dome and tower, plus $3,500 for the lot (100 ft. by 100 ft). Nor does he begrudge his eight months of hard labor. "Carpenters have a remarkably low incidence of mental illness," he insists. Reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Karma Yes, Toilets No | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

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