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...other direction, the Haymarket stop near the North End is worth getting off for. At the market vendors offer fruit and vegetables from open wooden carts on the street, which is always covered with at least a day's layer of garbage. Good deals are available there, but watch out for the hucksters who will slip you a bag of rotten peaches from behind their stands in place of the perfect peaches enticing you out front. It is wise to go in the evening, when the sellers want to go home and will therefore sell whatever they have left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...shall ye reap. Let the Arabs, like other men, reap the bitter fruit of seeds they alone have sown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 20, 1977 | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

...grains are completed and, weather permitting, prospects for bumper yields of these crops also are as bright as spring sunshine. All this is the best of news to inflation-pinched consumers, who can now count on relatively moderate increases in food prices. Despite the big winter run-up in fruit and vegetable prices, caused by Eastern freeze and Western drought, the Government predicts that food prices this year will rise somewhere between 4% and 6%, v. painful leaps of 14.5% in 1973 and again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Lush Crop of Discontent | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

...seeing my planet blow up. You know, there go my parents, my record collection, everything. What do I see? A hand waving to tell me where to look." Adds Mark Hamill, 25, who plays Luke Skywalker: "Acting in this movie, I felt like a raisin in a gigantic fruit salad. And I didn't even know who the coconuts or cantaloupes were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: STAR WARS The Year's Best Movie | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

...world will do anything for Latin America except read about it. The general curiosity seems to end with fourth-grade geography and the fact that Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable body of water on earth. Yet this vast land mass, drooping from North America like some ripe, unplucked fruit, has produced some of this century's major poets and novelists: Peru's Cesar Vallejo, Chile's Pablo Neruda, Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez of Colombia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eternity Is Procreation | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

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