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...Buster Keaton's comic mask was nearly indistinguishable from the one most actors don for tragedy. To have seen a Keaton film is to remember his thin, straight mouth, its corners barely holding their own against gravity. The eyes are equally memorable; Spanish Poet Federico García Lorca described them as "sad infinite eyes, like those of a newborn beast of burden." No matter what madness swirled around them, they remained wells of loneliness in the pale landscape of Keaton's face...
...pork production is at near record levels and poultry should continue to be plentiful. Last week the DOA reported that acreage planted in wheat is up 8% and corn acreage is about the same as last year. The department is now predicting a substantial harvest, if not a bin-buster, this fall...
...Kursawa's Samurai films, telling the story of a Samurai (Toshiro Mifune) who offers his services to each of two factions warring in village. After some reversals, he of course ends up helping the side that deserves his skills. The film served as a model for the first block-buster spaghetti western, Fistful of Dollars, which brought Clint Eastwood to fame...
...Middletown, just three miles from the crippled plant, bartenders concocted a new drink combining gin, vodka and bourbon and called it the Bubble Buster, because "it melts down everything." At Dickinson College in Carlisle, 25 miles to the west, students dreamed up such T-shirt slogans as KISS ME, I'M RADIATED. Other area residents wore more defiant slogans: HELL, NO, WE WON'T GLOW. Needling the lack of scientific certainty about the effects of radiation, some T-shirt wearers proclaimed: I SURVIVED THREE MILE ISLAND-I THINK...
...palomino who brought television humor to previously unscaled heights in the 50s, died two weeks ago in Oklahoma, the equine and entertainment worlds suffered a great loss. The 31-year-old hoofer had cheated the glue-factory for many a year; but finally the great bronco-buster in the sky roped...