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...Grade, the TV series must be taped. Within hours of his arrival, shooting had started. Several of the pig Muppets had started an off-camera fight but had been quelled. Guest Star Harry Belafonte had overcome his initial queasiness at working with shaggy short people and had sung The Banana Boat Song with spirit, even though Cap tain Link Hogthrob pigged one of the bananas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Those Marvelous Muppets | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...paid baseball player in history, surpassing San Francisco Pitcher Vida Blue, who reportedly could earn up to $800,000 next year. Rose also zooms past San Francisco's O.J. Simpson, the aristocrat of pro football ($733,358), and Denver's David Thompson, pro basketball's top banana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Christmas Comes Early for Pete | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...Kahn has a penchant for candor that is both refreshing and dangerous in Washington. When he said that there is the possibility of a "deep, deep depression" if inflation continues to soar, the President was furious. Kahn responded by purging the word depression from his vocabulary and instead using "banana." So he now says: "We're in danger of having the worst banana in 45 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Yes, We Have No Bananas | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...easy, glancing about, to tell who the participants really are. Right off the bat in the morning, a bouncy little loudmouth takes the barren stage and tells everyone to pick a partner for a game. "One of you will be a frozen yogurt, the other a banana." Fantastic! This apparently fulfills the promise that there would be group "sharing" and mass "intimacy." Still, the participants are people who, en masse, become as obedient, as malleable as a class of terrified kindergarteners. They submit themselves with amazing unanimity to a series of silly exercises ordered from on high. Everybody stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Much Ado About It | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...fields were freshly plowed. Banana trees and grape vines were flourishing. But nothing moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightmare in Jonestown | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

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