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Richard Harris overacts as James Parker, Jane's adventure-monger father. But he really can't be blamed for that: Most of his interactions are with Jane, so Harris must cope with the unenviable task of bouncing his lines off Bo, which is like bouncing a casaba melon off cement. Nevertheless, he is successful at times, and provides the film's few entertaining moments. It is hard to say if Tarzan would have been a good movie even with a better actress playing Jane, somebody with style and grace. Julie Christie for instance, or (a few years ago) Katherine Hepburn...
...half years ago, Gena Glicklich, a 39-year-old student at the School of Education, noticed a small lump in one of her breasts. A year later, the lump had grown to the size of a melon, and Glicklich had a biopsy performed. Nine months from now, Glicklich...
Glicklich contends that in the eleven months from her first visit to Golub until doctors finally performed a biopsy in July 1979, her cancer had grown from the size of a pea of that of a melon and had become inoperable...
...advisers to eat this bivalve regularly as "brain food.") Though it is as expensive as beefsteak today, seafood can be stretched in astonishing ways, and Spear prescribes 29 fish soups and stews that elongate budgets while widening nostrils. For the more extravagant, two of her finny finest: shrimp with melon in kirsch, and the New Orleans oyster loaf known as la Médiatrice, which errant husbands used to bring home to placate spouses after a night on the town...
...route to Kandahar (pop. 125,000), 66 miles away in southern Afghanistan, our traveling companions graciously shared slices of a delicious native melon. They warmed when we inquired about the cut communications and electricity cables along the road. "Mujahidin," one whispered knowingly. After passing through a Soviet-manned checkpoint at Kandahar airport-the first of 40 such roadblocks during the trip-we reached the city itself. A man who had befriended us on the bus located a scooter rickshaw and led us to a safe house to spend the night...