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Feets is so full of variety. "Knee Deep," the album's only instrumental, brings to mind the Hancock of years past and successes that included "Water-melon Man" and "Chameleon." Not that "Knee Deep" ranks with those oldies, but Hancock hasn't lost his old touch...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Running Strong | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

This fall, equipped with a new protective helmet, Polillo's over-ripe melon has avoided further battering and his statistics have benefitted as a result. Through the first four games Ralph has rushed for a team-leading 175 yards and caugt 7 passes for another 134 yards, to rank second behind backfield mate Paul Connors...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Polillio: Comet Among Stars | 10/17/1978 | See Source »

Valentine, You're my melancholy baby...With a head like a melon and a face like a collie...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: Massacre of Valentine's Day | 2/14/1978 | See Source »

Your entertaining piece emphasized the exotic and the expensive. There are many of us who enjoy preparing good food at home, yet do not need and cannot afford $4 for one melon, $75 for a single class, or $65,000 kitchens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 9, 1978 | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

...swept, ordered, prosperous. The happy people of Huhsien county are the last Arcadians. Socialism, as it were, equals Ovid plus electricity. Their sacks of grain bulge like the bellies of good-luck gods. Every bulb of garlic in their fields is the size of a baby's head. Each melon and gourd displays, in its massive and purposeful rotundity, the benefits of collective selfcriticism. Like the bulbous backside of a Cadillac in America 20 years ago, the distended cabbage and the steatopygous turnip are images of Good Government. In this land, imagination goes about its business with methodical certainty. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Arcadians of Huhsien County | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

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