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Despite the President's early observation that he intended to make his own breakfast, this service is now usually provided by a Jeevesian attendant, who brings him his orange juice, sliced melon, tea and English muffins piping hot, margarined and ready to be marmaladed. (Last week's presidential muffin-toasting performance was a special show put on in response to numerous requests by photographers.) A man of enormous energy and appetite, Ford nevertheless sticks strictly to Dr. Lukash's regimen, even manfully downing the Nixonian lunch of cottage cheese (Chef Haller says that the President has never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Ford Fare | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

Fresh from his fascistic triumphs as a vigilante on the sidewalks of New York in Death Wish, busy Charles Bronson is now giving equal time to liberalmindedness. As Mr. Majestyk, he plays a farmer trying to keep the Mafia out of his melon patch and a nice crew of Mexican migrants at work there, labor goons notwithstanding. Bronson's style is more suited to the open country than it is to the urban landscape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Melon-choly Baby | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

...Lettieri may be the heaviest-handed heavy now operating in the movies, but he does bring a certain entertaining enthusiasm to his work as a big-city hit man lost in the alien corn. Any other actor might have broken up when required to order an innocent and helpless melon crop to be machine-gunned as an act of vengeance. But the sadistic gleam in Lettieri's eye burns bright through a scene that proves there is entirely too much juice and rind in our movies today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Melon-choly Baby | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

...began to hate television. His preppie roommate had an obsession with T.V.--watching the late movie every night, usually stoned. He could not sleep; no matter how low the preppie kept the volume, the monotonal voice drifted effortlessly into his room, settled down like a farmer guarding his melon patch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inside Looking Out | 6/13/1974 | See Source »

...examination showed that she had broken her right forearm; the discovery of spots in her left lung confirmed that she had had tuberculosis; and an examination of her gall bladder disclosed several gallstones. Her digestive tract showed that she had eaten melon shortly before her death; 138 melon seeds were found, all undigested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The 2,000-Year-Old Woman | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

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