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...Butterfield, The New York Times' East Asia correspondent, is well known for his penetrating analysis of events in China on the basis of such salient symbols as Chairman Hua's hair style. He outdid himself this week, though, with a story on Vietnam apparently culled from a month-old speech by that country's prime minister...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Paper Waste | 10/4/1977 | See Source »

...Crimson got back on the winning track two days later at C.W. Post. MacKenzie broke loose for a hat trick in the second half, when the stickmen outdid their foes, 5-2, to earn a 9-7 victory after trailing at the half. The senior attackman had garnered three assists in the first half to give him six points for the afternoon...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Vacation No Fun For Laxmen | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...that the football rowdies, led by the likes of Bill Roberts, outdid themselves again...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: The Best and Worst of '77: Should Old Acquaintance Etc. | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...West mustered its most decadent and bizarre characters for the frivolous extravaganza which was marked by fantastic costumes and coyote yells and attended by transvestities, pimps, working women and the curious press. Hot-pink pasties, g-strings, sequins and nudity adorned the raucous proceedings--but the drag queens reportedly outdid the rest, leading one participant to comment, "Once again it's proven that...

Author: By Marilyn L. Booth, | Title: New Tricks in the Labor Zone | 2/18/1976 | See Source »

...feeble attempt at sophisticated, hard-edged humor, the local English-language weekly Monday Morning recently ran a fashion spread on the "military" look, showing models with rifles under the headline THE APPROPRIATE LOOK. Last week the magazine outdid itself with two new fashion tips: the "refuse romper," platform shoes "designed to keep pedestrians from submerging in garbage heaps"; and the "dross dress," festooned with refuse so that the wearer can "evade snipers by melting into any garbage heap or, in the unlikely event that no such heap is immediately available, by lying down anywhere and becoming a garbage heap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Shards from a Shattered Mosaic | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

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