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...days, often foolishly. The memory of earlier Fourths of July, with their pop-bottle rockets and Black Cat firecrackers, is apt to be a lot more cheerful than the real thing. Still, viewed from an often difficult present, it seems that not many years ago, an ear of sweet corn and a gin fizz were enough to turn Independence Day into pure bliss...
Even as South Africa has been drained of $1 billion in foreign exchange, the consequences of drought are rippling out to its neighbors. The country has traditionally exported up to a million tons of corn each year to other African nations. This year, however, South Africa will have to import corn from the U.S., Argentina and Taiwan...
Forget a few details and for the month of June Melissa Sue Anderson, America's favorite corn queen from "Little House on the Prarie," was a regular Harvard freshman. Ignore the fact that her dress was a little flamboyant, her language a little flamboyant, her language a little cliched. Don't worry that her make-up was thicker than Rustoleum, or that her blue eyes could stop you like a rabbit in front of headlights. So what if she made no move without two directors, three camera operators, light men, sound men, make-up men, script supervisor, innumerable assistants with...
...perfect!" marvelled Erica Van Wagener, a New York import with a bit part. "They want corn-fed sweetness, and she fits in the hole. She can play all the teen-age girl roles until she's 25." Van Wagener complained that her own career was impeded because she could not be stereotyped so easily. It is those stereotypes that TV uses to build its picture of life...
Without making exaggerated claims for her subject, Corn has restored a missing fragment of the American imagination. Wood was not a great painter, but he epitomized some deep-struck hopes and illusions, and he deserves understanding. This will be a popular show, and it should...