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...make any comment? 'Yes," said Corso. "Fried shoes. Like it means nothing. It's all a big laughing bowl and we're caught in it. A scary laughing bowl." Added Gregory Corso, with the enigmatic quality of a true Beatnik: "Don't shoot the wart hog." Chimed in Allen Ginsberg: "My mystical shears snip snip snip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Fried Shoes | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

Incentives of Cost. Having made many concessions to a sullen peasantry to get work out of them, the Soviet boss now finds them living too high on the hog-a trend that is even more marked in Communist Poland, where, one economist says, "the cities are working for the peasants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Time to Retreat | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

Cimarron City (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Having already rounded up most of TV, the western will also try to hog-tie Christmas. George Montgomery and wife (Dinah Shore) take the holiday season's first crack at turning Dickens' Christmas Carol into horse opera (see below for a similar effort on G.E. Theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Dec. 22, 1958 | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...farm, the outlook was not so good. The Agriculture Department predicted last week that net farm income in 1959 may drop 5% to 10% below 1958, after a year of the highest farm profits in five years (see chart). Hog and poultry prices are expected to decline, and crop prices will be lower as a result of this year's record crop and surpluses. Next year's crop may be equally large, or larger, partly because the Government will scrap soil-bank payments to farmers for underplanting their acres, thus depriving them of $700 million in payments made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Farm Turnaround | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...curtain hog, she has been known to refuse to take a solo curtain call after the third act of Manon Lescaut because "it is the tenor's act." Her patience with her fans is apparently limitless: she will sit hour after hour backstage after exhausting performances, dutifully signing autographs ("Poor things," she murmurs, "poor things"). She still regards public figures outside opera with the awe of a country girl on her first trip to the city. Several years ago she heard about the "Night in Monte Carlo" ball at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, at which Prince Rainier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Diva Serena | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

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