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...muscles. But eventually I think they will forget about the 'Body.' " Well, maybe, but they have not forgotten the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls or any other awesome force of nature. Nor are they soon likely to ignore Schwarzenegger's biceps, which are about as big around as watermelons at harvest time, his calves, which appear to have the diameter of a California redwood, or his stomach, which seems to be made of Vermont granite. The audiences crowding into Schwarzenegger's latest picture, Commando, may just be there to enjoy blood and guts, but it is the Body--a wonder like...
During all of the bellowing this summer, back and forth across the country, regarding "subway" and "freeway" World Series, Missourians were characteristically muted concerning the "show me" Series that is now distinctly possible. "It's harvest time," pronounced Dan Quisenberry, an ironic relief pitcher for Kansas City, by way of introducing last week's four- day visit from the California Angels, one of several perfect appointments fizzing all over...
...Nowhere" (1969) and classic "After the Goldrush" (1970) followed the disappointing album, "Neil Young"; the dark, powerful "On the Beach" (1974) and "Tonight's the Night" (1975) followed the drunk and disorderly "Time Fades Away" (1973). Moreover, Young's finest work has always had a country tinge: witness "Harvest" (1972) and "Comes a Time...
...stew of a scandal. At stake were nothing less than the fate of the Italian tomato crop, one of the country's leading exports, and the pride of Campania, a lush farming region that stretches from Naples to the slopes of Vesuvius. At the height of the harvest two weeks ago, deliveries of tomatoes to canneries were abruptly suspended by the Italian Ministry of Agriculture. Reason: suspicions that much of a 200,000-metric-ton crop, perhaps 30% of a bumper harvest, contained the poisonous insecticide aldicarb. Marketed by Union Carbide under the trade name Temik, this is the chemical...
...Wiley was not a run-of-the-beat lawman. He aspired to be a poet (writing lines like "my love is a silver shadow") and had long worked on a mystery novel called Harvest Madness. Bigam knew that the chief had been moody lately, and a bit bored with the department he joined in 1978 and had run since 1982. Still, Bigam did not suspect suicide. Wiley's normally disheveled uniforms had been left at the dry cleaner. His apartment was spotless, and his manuscript for Harvest Madness was missing...