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...Referring to the autobiographic tall tales in Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia, written as a 49-page potboiler in London in 1785 by Rudolf Erich Raspe (1737-94), a fugitive embezzler from Hanover, and enlarged in later editions by Grub Street hacks...
Down in the harsh bottom land of Crooked Creek, N.C., the sharecropping Negroes grub and grovel in feudal hardship, sustained only by a Bible-quoting parson and their own passive resistance to death, famine and flood - the blind resilience peculiar to those with no hope to abandon except that of heaven. To borrow one of their own sayings, they are "blackgum against thunder," and that is something when a man knows that the blackgum tree is "so hard, when lightnin hit it, is a question of who win, the fire or the wood." The many ways in which the lightning...
...film's biggest surprise is Debbie Reynolds. Scrubbed of her starlet enamel, she emerges as an engaging young girl with Actors' Studio overtones-a Hollywood butterfly turned into an authentic urban grub...
Bravo . . . Merveilleux. The sensational Buffet opening rated front-page headlines and picture spreads in Paris newspapers, an honor usually reserved for Pablo Picasso. Since art connoisseurs had already established the artist as their choice among postwar French painters (TIME, March 21), the critics had to grub for superlatives. "The Goya of our times," wrote the critic of L'Express. "Together with Picasso, [he] ranks among the most extraordinary examples of artistic creation," said Franc-Tireur. In the gallery's red morocco-bound guest book, the great and fashionable scribbled "Bravo, Bernard" and "C'est merveilleux...
...Arizona Rangers, drank in campfire tales, covered many of the cattle and mining wars. He looks back with comfortable nostalgia on the people of the Old West. "Any of them would have ridden 30 miles to fetch you a doctor or they'd share their last bit of grub with you. But they wouldn't go to jail for you, or accept an insult," he says with a leathery grin. "The modern cowboy, good man that he is, is not my sort of fellow, jiggling about in a jeep through a West expertly policed and bustling with fences...