Word: beane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Growing up in a prim, God-fearing little house across the road from their slatternly encampment, Earlene Pomerleau (Martha Plimpton) watches the Beans' messy comings and goings through her picture window, paying particular attention to hunky Beal Bean (Patrick McGaw), who is not paying much attention to her. He's sleeping with his father's common-law wife, Roberta (Kelly Lynch), while the old man (Rutger Hauer) does time in jail for beating a game warden half to death. This drama is, as Earlene says, better than watching television: it is live, and it is X-rated...
...made movies like Bunker Bean, a comedy about a male stenographer who believes he is Napoleon...
...ultimately no more compelling or fun. Margaret Mitchell's estate stipulated that a sequel to her 1936 novel not contain any explicit sex. The TV producers, spared this constraint, show Scarlett and Rhett disrobing each other frantically in a fisherman's hut. Moreover, the character of Lord Fenton (Sean Bean), with whom Scarlett has an affair, is given far more prominence than he enjoyed in the book. He is a secret rapist-murderer who beats Scarlett when she dismisses him. "I am not accustomed to sudden onsets of chastity!" he yells while groping and slapping...
Meanwhile, soybean growers in Mississippi, relative newcomers to the bean culture, experimented with Northern plant varieties requiring less growing time and thus less exposure to the worst summer heat. The plants took hold like natives, and there too it was apparent that as the weather smiled, the yields mounted. The soybean experts in the Midwest tinkered with denser plantings, reducing the distance between rows by as much as 30 inches to cut down on the herbicides necessary to kill the weeds. That worked beautifully, as the profusion of bean plants popped out quickly and sheltered the ground around them, crowding...
There are two things at Harvard, an older and wiser roommate of mine once told me, that are never in short supply; black bean soup and advice...