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...bitch ever wrote?" You bet, when every number is a small ruby; the first act alone comprises its own Top 10 eternal hit parade. The ballads If I Were a Bell and I've Never Been in Love Before and the up- tempo Fugue for Tinhorns and A Bushel and a Peck distinguish any musical. But the savor of Guys and Dolls is in Loesser's capturing of the Damon Runyon Broadway wit, and by extension the unique pizazz of big-town America. No one had put a medical dictionary to music and turned it into a declaration of psychosomatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Snappy Fella | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

...various episodes, Homer gives away the plant's blueprints to a foreign exchange student, his boss tries to bribe a plant inspector with a bushel of cash, and three-eyed "Blinky" is found swimming near the plant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: `Simpsons' Spurs Ire of Nuclear Industry | 12/6/1990 | See Source »

Ever notice how some North American baseball fielders seem to have gloves as big as bushel baskets? Not for long. This season major-league baseball plans to enforce an old rule, previously ignored, that bans any glove larger than 12 in. from heel to tip. The clampdown has sent glovemakers hustling to redesign mitts, some of which exceed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORTING GOODS: Out-Mitting the Competition | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...turns out that burning corn is O.K., but that growing it, at least the way it's grown now, is not. Lovins says the erosion modern farming causes eats two bushels of topsoil for every bushel of corn produced. Agricultural strip mining. So in his view, corn stoves may make the best sense only in regions where there's lots of corn (especially if it's rotting in silos) but few trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: Throw a Few More Kernels on the Fire | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

...what's the problem? In a party that has made social welfare programs the bulwark of its agenda, Jackson's insistent criticism of Reagan's failure to promote social justice should be put under the spotlight, not hidden under a bushel...

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: The Real `Jackson Problem' | 1/26/1990 | See Source »

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