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...land is richer through the Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks, euphimisms for preserves for recreational vehicles. Fecund beasts, they spill across the blacktop in strained, sluggish twists, painting darkly on the snow-rimmed shoulders...

Author: By Edmund Horsey, | Title: Elsewhere in the Summer, and an Elk Head | 7/15/1975 | See Source »

Amarcord. Fellini's latest and mollowest. Doesn't have much to say about the world, but some of the images are incredibly beautiful and effective. Fellini is fecund as ever so the film is long. It satisfies, though

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: THE SCREEN | 3/20/1975 | See Source »

...spurns her in bed and is drowning in alcohol out of fear that he may be a homosexual. Brick's father, Big Daddy (Fred Gwynne), is dying of cancer, and the childless Maggie is in a steely duel with Brick's brother Gooper (Charles Siebert) and his fecund wife Mae (Joan Pape) for the imminent in heritance of "28,000 acres of the richest land this side of the valley Nile." What evolves is a series of confrontations that would reduce the forthcoming Foreman-Ali fight to a game of pattycake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Delta Wildcat | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

...large in the Northern Territory, the toad posses are counting on Bufo's well-known amorous proclivities to do him in. A local radio station will broadcast a recording of the male Bufo marinus' bass mating call in a last drainage-ditch attempt to lure lovesick and fecund female toads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Bufo Plague | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

...matter how abstract in appearance Miró's paintings become, they are rarely so in origin. What he would like to do is turn the process around: instead of nature generating art, "the picture should be fecund. It must bring a world to birth." In Miró's view, it can do so if it is animistic enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joan Mir | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

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