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However, we must congratulate Mr. Savit, who incidentally was seen cavorting with a recently deceased and rapidly decomposing barnyard critter (the mainstay of our milk industry), for his precise spelling and immaginative use of punctuation; and metaphor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Green | 11/13/1976 | See Source »

...centerpiece of the musical, and he adds direction and keeps the musical teetering somewhere out on the brink, where, of course, it is supposed to be. The trouble with doing Forum is that the shadow of Zero Mostel looms over this central part like a chicken hawk over the barnyard, ready to swoop down on young actors. Zax stacks up--he won't make anybody forget Mostel, but he will make a lot of people laugh...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: That's entertainment | 11/12/1976 | See Source »

...Agriculture Secretary spied Singers Pat Boone and Sonny Bono, and John Dean, the former White House counsel who had blown the whistle on Richard Nixon and had just worked the convention as a writer for Rolling Stone. A gregarious man who likes to flaunt his snappy country-and often barnyard-sense of humor, Butz, 67, wandered over to make idle conversation, after Knapp had warned him that Dean was now a reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: EXIT EARL, NOT LAUGHING | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

What is objectionable? Agricultural and barnyard smells, as well as restaurant odors, have been exempted from regulation. So have the smells of disinfectants from hospitals and odors from single-family dwellings. Nonetheless, says Story, "it's the toughest odor control anywhere." It may just make scents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Nose Job | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

...little individual rights meant to those honorable and dedicated public servants in the FBI. The barnyard cat takes similar care with the rights of the rodent it pursues through the fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Dec. 22, 1975 | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

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