Word: shop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Communication between the two men remained very formal until 1976 when the downfall of the Gang of Four allowed more cultural exchange. When Ylvisaker invited Chuzhang to cross the Pacific to talk shop, the Chinese educator accepted enthusiastically...
Since 1963, when she first saw Peter Sellers in I'm All Right, Jack, Paris Correspondent Sandra Burton has been haunted by the actor's zany alter egos. "His portrayal of a stupidly arrogant British shop steward kept creeping into my college thesis on Britain's Angry Young Men," she recalls. "In 1974, when I was interviewing an M.I.T. disarmament expert for TIME, I couldn't help thinking of Sellers' Dr. Strangelove. And his Inspector Clouseau defined my first encounter with a French police detective." But when Burton interviewed Sellers in Paris for this week...
...institution, founded in a London coffee shop owned by Edward Lloyd in 1687, will need all its ingenuity and eye for new business to face its current problems. Lloyd's is hurting financially because of some staggering insurance claims, and is torn by a bitter in-house lawsuit. Because of the strife, Lloyd's new chairman, Peter Green, 55, told TIME that he now intends to ask the British Parliament this year to pass a new act governing the insurance exchange. This would be the first significant new legislation covering Lloyd's since...
...Hall of the Consistory is reserved for sacred rites. This time, however, a flock of first-nighters led by Pope John Paul II himself, in a front-row-center armchair, filled the hall for a special performance of Polish Playwright Andrzej Jawien's allegory, The Goldsmith's Shop. The play, about three married couples with differing problems and a goldsmith who represents God, drew a chorus of clerical bravos, which was no surprise. Jawien was the nom de plume under which John Paul, then Polish Bishop Karol Wojtyla, wrote the play 20 years ago. The playwright-turned-Pontiff...
There is another line to his career: his interest in the implacably impervious. It was this quality that first brought him fame?as Fred Kite, the stupefyingly literal-minded and selfish union shop steward in I'm All Right, Jack (1960). It also the source of hilarity in that small masterpiece, The Party, in which Sellers plays a beturbanned Indian, somehow-invited to a grand affair, and wandering through it, friendless and almost silent, but wreaking havoc wherever he turns. Finally, this impermeability is the mark of his great Inspector Clouseau. In countless scenes such as the one from...