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Striptease, whatever lubricious thoughts the advance buzz may have induced, is not about Demi Moore's getting naked--well, almost naked. She does, several times, and she is, as we used to say when we gathered out back of the corncrib to discuss family values, a damned handsome woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ONLY THE BARE ESSENTIALS | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

...suspicious state troopers closed in, he jumped out, pulling the teen-ager with him. He opened fire with a pistol, ducked behind a corncrib and ran across the road to a farmhouse. Two shots rang out simultaneously-one fired by Larry Rubeck, 15, from the farmhouse, the other by a state policeman. Hollenbaugh fell dying, blood spurting from a severed jugular. Peggy dashed into the arms of Pittsburgh Newsman (and TIME Stringer) Scott Rombach. "Thank God!" she cried. "I'm safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: The Battle of Gobbler's Knob | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

...Korean army and could only be called "guerrillas" because they were fighting behind the front in Allied-held territory. At the time of the junction of the Inchon and Pusan beachheads, Tokyo spokesmen had gloatingly reported them trapped. Last week the guerrillas were acting more like rats in a corncrib than like rats in a trap. They had attacked trains, convoys, supply dumps, command posts, burned or terrorized towns, driven thousands of Koreans from their homes. They seemed to be centrally directed by General Kim Chaek, the North Korean who commanded the June invasion and later became occupation commander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Rats in a Corncrib | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

When this ad by a corncrib manufacturer appeared in a country newspaper, the Farm Quarterly figured that many farmers would ask: "Can I really get away with that?" In its spring issue last week, the Quarterly assured U.S. farmers that the ad had suggested a perfectly legal way for farmers to sell their corn and have it too-and make as much as 83¢ a bushel into the bargain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FAIR DEAL: Moral Right | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

Nobody thought to nail a slat on the corncrib...

Author: By Arthur DAVISON Ficku, | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 1/20/1923 | See Source »

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