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...Arizona used to feed on cantaloupes and honeydews; and why Sierra Blanca, Texas, receives 225 wet tons of New York City sludge each day. Listening to the routinely outsize tales of ordinary Americans with an amiable deadpan worthy of Richard Ford, he suggests that distance makes the head grow fonder too. People who buy snakes in bottles of Jim Beam may, in fact, be closer than we know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: SIDE TRIPS: AN AMIABLE TOUR OF SOME REAL AMERICAN ORIGINALS | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

...mail box informing him of the large arms shipments arriving in the superintendent's office. He's tried to hide the slips, but I've seen them! He is growing a long beard and is starting to smoke unfiltered cigarettes. UNFILTERED!! Can you believe it? He is growing fonder and fonder of Marxist criticism-in fact, I think I overheard him making cracks about laissez-faire economic policies! What should I do?? --Worried in Winthrop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Extracurricular Extraordinaire | 4/20/1995 | See Source »

...owned it for 40 years, and I've neverbeen fonder of anybody in all those years than Iwas of him," Davidson said. "This is such a shock.He was so considerate, such a wonderful worker, soconcerned with doing everything properly...

Author: By Tood F. Braunstein, | Title: Grads Indicted in Charity Rip-off | 7/22/1994 | See Source »

...public wearies of his visage in the first few years. "People get tired of seeing anybody on television," says a senior White House aide. So Bush stays on the margins of public consciousness, betting that in today's peculiar politics, as in romance, absence makes the heart grow fonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Is Bush So Popular? | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

...problem. In sex, lies, and videotape, Soderbergh suggests that abstinence makes the heart grow fonder. Ann (Andie MacDowell) is a Baton Rouge, La., housewife too decorous to go mad. Things with her lawyer husband John (Peter Gallagher) are fine, she tells her therapist, "except I'm havin' this feeling that I don't want him to touch me." They haven't had sex for a while. At least Ann hasn't; John is pursuing an affair with her lubricious sister Cynthia (Laura San Giacomo). Curiosity is about the only thing that can be aroused in gentle Ann, and when John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: When Humor Meets Heartbreak | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

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