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...kill the weeds. That worked beautifully, as the profusion of bean plants popped out quickly and sheltered the ground around them, crowding out the weeds. When blooms appeared, cool weather encouraged more pods, and they in turn filled with big, healthy beans. All of this was followed by dryer weather, setting the perfect stage for the final act of maturing and providing the firm footing in the fields needed for the monstrous harvest machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amber Tsunamis of Grain | 11/7/1994 | See Source »

...says that for one episode he wrote, Spielberg sent him three-page memos on each draft of the script. Later Spielberg watched the rough cut and offered more suggestions. "He was amazing," says Nathan. "He would look at a scene and say, 'I think Take 2 was a little dryer.' He remembered everything from the dailies two or three weeks earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Angels with Dirty Faces | 10/31/1994 | See Source »

This is wisdom not vouchsafed to the creators of Angels in the Outfield, a remake of a dryer, less hungrily sentimental 1952 movie of the same title. A moment before he is abandoned, young Roger asks his father when they might become a family again. "When the Angels win the pennant," the father says. He is talking about the more hopeless of the Los Angeles baseball teams. That night Roger offers up prayers, and seraphim respond. With their help, the Angels start winning. Only Roger can see the small-a angels, and so he is needed to tell the perpetually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Hollywood's Huck Finns | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

...fourth of the five boys, complained of a headache; a month later he was dead of meningitis. Nixon wrote later that he cried every day for weeks. When Harold, the eldest son, was stricken with tuberculosis, Hannah left the rest of the family to take him to the dryer air in Prescott, Arizona. She could pay for this only by operating a clinic where other TB patients waited out their last weeks of life. In the summers Dick found jobs nearby as a janitor, a chicken plucker, a carnival barker. After five years, Harold died. "We all grew up rather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richard Nixon: I Have Never Been a Quitter | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

Rule 3: Come prepared. Stain Stick is only the beginning. To kill the 34 minutes (or 56 for a dryer) in a socially acceptable manner, students carry everything from romance novels to Rousseau...

Author: By Emily Carrier, | Title: Underground, Students Wage War Over Laundry | 2/26/1994 | See Source »

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