Word: corne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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State Fair. This remake of a remake of a remake may not win any Oscars, but durned if it don't take the blue ribbon for country corn...
...enthusiasm for the Bill, the President is in the great tradition of the Anti-Corn Law League, granddaddy of all Free Trade movements; its members used to insist that there were passages in the Bible which forecast the advent of Free Trade. (This passage, from Exodus, was especially popular: "Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt; get you down thither, and buy for us from them, that we may live...
State Fair. Composer Richard Rodgers has added new songs to this remake of the 1945 film, in which the corn is somehow taller and the color louder...
...rolling hinterland matted with cactus-tough scrub where peasants hack at the hard soil with primitive hoes. Two months ago, the first rains in eight months brought a green fuzz to the sertāo. But drought had already ruined this year's crop of beans, corn and manioc-root flour, mainstays of the peasant diet. Famine swept the sertāo, sending thousands of camponeses to the towns in search of food...
...Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a good clean dirty show. It stands for something. It is pro mammal. It is pro burlesque. It is pro the golden corn of vaudeville, flawlessly husked by Zero Mostel, David Burns, Jack Gilford and John Carradine. What Forum brings back to Broadway is good for high, low, middle, and knitted brows-the belly laugh...