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...topless pineapples; that was when, with the help of a little juice, Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville music came marimba-ing out of the loudspeakers. This is Florida, man! You may not be no pith helmet, mama honey, but I sho do lak the way you squeeze my tanning butter. Make that a double rum punch, bubbles. Me and my Foster Grants...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: And Texas Hidden Deep In My Heart | 4/8/1978 | See Source »

...said for artists' suffering: When they're as well off as Jimmy Buffett they don't hang out around docks and slums and all-nite Mini-Marts any more: this year it's casinos and yachtbasins. That's how he's gone from songs like "The Great Peanut Butter Conspiracy," about shoplifting in the hard times, to songs like Son of a Son's "My African Friend." He meets an African guy gambling in Martinique, they get drunk and Buffett scrapes himself up off some steps the next morning to find the guy gone. Sure was a good time, though...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: And Texas Hidden Deep In My Heart | 4/8/1978 | See Source »

...began Rhodesia's first admitted "external" (i.e., incursion) into Zambian territory-a two-day raid that destroyed an arms cache and a command camp of Joshua Nkomo's 8,000-man guerrilla army. Rhodesia announced that the "self-defense" raid-"It was a beautiful op, smooth as butter," said one officer in Salisbury-killed 38 guerrillas at the cost of one white Rhodesian trooper. Insisting that industrial targets had been hit as well, Zambia announced it would seek U.N. condemnation of the raid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Agonizing over the Settlement | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...only new bar that has achieved any kind of success lately is the Mars Marathon bar. Think I'm full of fudge? Well, when was the last time you saw Willie Wonka's Peanut Butter Oompahs...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Pot Pourri: March's Most Popular Pastime | 3/16/1978 | See Source »

...volunteers grew peas, beans, buckwheat and flax, and raised chickens, goats, pigs and cattle. They kept bees in wicker hives for their honey, and traded pottery and baby goats to the film crew for rations of salt and butter. Food storage was a constant problem. At times, the group had to eat maggoty meat and cope with invasions of rats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Reliving the Iron Age in Britain | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

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