Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vegetables, cloth and fiber crops. The result was a severe crimp in Red China's once booming export drive (TIME, Aug. 3), and a vegetable shortage so severe that last month China's cities were informed that henceforth they would have to grow all their own food except grain (TIME, July...
Curses & Scars. As the children grew up, their view of the outside world-except on extremely rare occasions-was through a hole in the iron door less than an inch in diameter. All day the family worked to help father make poison-from 5 a.m. to dusk. The youngsters got no schooling; their vocabularies were not more than 300 words, and they cursed as a matter of course. Their necks were dotted with small scars where their father had pressed his. knife a bit too hard instilling discipline: no whimpering for more food, no asking...
...Except for some bracing outdoor scenes, shot in southern Arizona, of amber plains, crystalline streams and Corot-cool forests, strikingly composed by Director John (The Old Man and the Sea) Sturges, the picture is mostly one long, gun-slinging showdown that fairly oozes blood and bathos. One tough gets his right through a poker table, another is mowed down by a sawed-o^ shotgun at close range. The hell-bent kid is killed by mistake by one of his own saddle-bum chums...
...sight, and visitors often go home with a bit of the Classical Age in their pockets-usually a marble shard. It is possible for a traveler to ramble through this forest of fluted stone and broken stone bodies for hours without meeting anything at all of the present except himself, the burning...
...gift for selling, the partners haggled constantly about how to run the business. ''All of a sudden," says Klaus, "we found we couldn't afford that luxury. What we needed was action, not conversation." They split management duties down the middle, isolated themselves from each other except for a Monday dinner, at which they make all corporate decisions. Says Klaus: "Ken Reiner's the brains of this outfit. As for me, I figure if you don't have brains, there's only one thing left-make money...