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...posed together, Carla and Louie could be figurines on the Grinch's wedding cake. But Rhea and Danny have made better luck. They have lived together for 16 years and were finally married in 1981. "At the ceremony," DeVito says, "we had a recording of Rhea's favorite song, Alfalfa's rendition of I'm in the Mood for Love, taped from an old Our Gang movie." Now that they have two daughters (Lucy, 3, and Gracie, 15 months), they "stand in line for every Disney movie that comes out," says Danny, a little surprised at being a settled family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tinseltown's Tiny Terror | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

Believe it or not, this review is an endorsement of Macbett. Remember how funny it was when Alfalfa tried to act like a professional showman? This is the same thing, sort of. The cast isn't great, but the script is, and together they manage to work...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: One Dark Night in Scotland | 3/14/1986 | See Source »

...hell with it," you say, climbing into the cab of the four-whell drive Chevy Ram she made you buy, tossing a handful of oats and alfalfa to a U-Haul full of haggard-looking thoroughbreds. "I don't need her. I don't need anybody...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: The Shepard Zone | 1/24/1986 | See Source »

...Idaho, swarms of them can be seen from miles away, and troubled farmers speak of "watching the grasshoppers coming over the mountains." The insects are imperiling $1.1 billion worth of alfalfa, grain, beans and potatoes in southern Idaho. In South Dakota, grasshoppers, army worms and corn borers have laid waste to thousands of acres of crops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Invaders Feast on Crops | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

...They wish to kill the tiger to take on his powers, to kill the deer to feel some deep, strange beauty in the deed, a fatal oneness. People fear some animals and devour others. Human teeth are not designed the way they are in order to eat tofu and alfalfa sprouts, but to tear and grind meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Thinking Animal Thoughts | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

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