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Along with other problems, the desert locust is back again
...time I saw Citizen Kane. He remembered too, and we compared gurgled memories of How It Was the First Time. This is a fairly routine thing to discuss, I realize; in New York, Oxnard, Peru, Indiana, and bless it, Kaplan, Louisiana, hums of conversation rising from cafeteria tables like locust clouds, and if you poll each little bug, here's what he'll say: "The first time I saw Fred Astaire dance I was trans-fixed...after the first time I saw the "Seventh Seal" I couldn't win a chess game for a month...the first time...
Outside major cities (where a cord of firewood can cost up to $90) good hardwood, such as ash, hickory, oak, hard maple, beech or black locust, can be had for little or nothing. Both national and state forests encourage homeowners to cut down and remove deadwood from specified areas, and many private owners encourage the same practice, since it helps clear the way for new growth. Geri Harrington, a lively Connecticut woman who has written an excellent new guide, The Wood-Burning Stove Book (Macmillan; $12.95), lists many other sources of free wood, such as utility companies, which constantly...
...psychopath who murders children. The scene where a young girl is murdered and the camera cuts to the girl's balloons drifting aimlessly, is one of the most chilling in all film, and the crowd hysteria at the end makes you wish Lang could have directed Day of the Locust. It foreshadows the hysteria that was to come ten years later. Not to be missed, this first offering by the Quad Film Festival is the best movie around the Square this weekend...
California has been systematically devoured since 1945. Having fouled our air and water, despoiled our hills and farmlands and perverted our liberal culture, the locust pilgrims now cry fraud...