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...state fair in Iowa, which is expected to draw as many as 600,000 people, an artist, Duffy Lyon, created a sculpture of Hansel, Gretel and their gingerbread house, entirely out of butter. This broke a long-standing tradition in Iowa. In past years the fair featured only one butter sculpture: a cow contained in a refrigerated case. Of course, a cow carved out of butter has a material integrity that Hansel and Gretel lack, but the new work is in flesh-tone colors. Lyon reports that the crowds "stand there with their mouths open. They've never seen colored...
...watch a competition among Elvis impersonators, to participate in an Elvis trivia contest and to pay homage. Crowds also flock to the Wild and Wacky Raft Race in Miami, the bathtub race in San Diego and the equally exciting Hermit Crab Races in Ocean City, N.J. In Illinois' state fair there is both a hog-calling and a husband-calling contest, in which a woman calls for her husband, who has been calling hogs. First prize was taken by Kathy Lingren of Beason, whose winning cry was "Kenneeeee, the sows are in heat, and I can't get the boar...
...stolen bicycle. His big mystery lies in his strange appeal for adolescents. Is he yet another vehicle through which they can sentimentalize their childhoods? Is he just the latest grotesque fad? Is he to the Reagan era what Pinky Lee was to Eisenhower's? Impossible to say. But fair warning: this movie could induce terminal boredom in adults and rot the minds of the young...
...African counterparts. While the participants, who included the chief executive officers of General Motors and Citibank, have kept a tight lid on the proceedings, it is assumed that strategies to hasten racial reform were discussed. Meanwhile another group, representing the 186 U.S. companies that subscribe to a code of fair employment practices known as the Sullivan Principles, sent a telex to the South African government urging Botha to "lower tensions" in the schools of the country's black townships...
...killed John Belushi. I didn't mean to, but I am responsible." Said L.A. Deputy District Attorney Elden Fox: "She sold the story for $15,000, confessing to committing 14 felonies in the state of California." Failure to charge Smith, said the prosecutor, would have been "derelict." DEMOCRATS Fair? To Whom...