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...accept this inclination either. He felt science was pushed on him. So he had done nothing except sit in his father's garden and read. Scott couldn't remember for sure if pumpkins grew in his father's garden. But the garden at least suggested Pumpkins and, it followed, melon breasted cinderellas. Which perhaps is not too important as Scott quickly pointed out to himself. He did love big breasts, to the point of obsession, but we are an oral culture, he pointed out to himself. The point of what happened is the pumpkin...

Author: By William L. Ripley, | Title: Choosing Fruit | 3/17/1969 | See Source »

...yellow corn is sprouting. One acre has been set aside for a hydroponic plot. Nutrients and chemicals from a 60,000-gal-lon fiber-glass reservoir wash long rows of coal-black tuff, a cinderlike debris of volcanic lava brought from the Golan Heights. In the tuff are melon and tomato seeds that may, thanks to the hydroponic forced feeding, yield up to ten times a normal crop. All told, the Israeli government has invested nearly $500,000 in Kallia's uncertain political future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: ISRAEL SETTLING IN TO STAY | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...through a combination of hard and soft surprises. Hard (far-out) surprises in the March issue, out next week, include Ferrari-inspired shoes that are red, black, green and yellow, and have wheels and a red "2" painted on their sides. Also hard: a "prancesuit" made up of a melon crepe tunic and thigh-tight knee pants with blue crystal trim and blue shoes to match. The soft(expectable) surprise comes in the form of Paris spring fashions, from Dior's white hunting jacket to St. Laurent's daytime version of "le smoking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: 100 Years in a Candy Store | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

...spellbound in St. Bride Foundation Institute when they smeared Susan Kahn, a visiting New York schoolteacher clad only in a black strapless bra and black panties, from head to toe with flour, crushed ripe tomatoes, beer, raw egg, brightly colored powdered paints, cornflakes, half-chewed raw carrot, bits of melon and melon seed, milk, and tufts of moss and grass. Concluded the critic for the London Times, trying very hard to be broad-minded about it all: "The visual arts today are a kind of brothel of the intellect, and nobody can write a report on a brothel while primly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Beautiful, Jean-Jacques | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

...Among them: onions, okra, radishes, lettuce, cabbage, kohlrabi, carrots, beets, tomatoes, rhubarb, sweet corn, potatoes, turnips, snap beans, squash, cucumbers, zucchini, sweet potatoes, musk melon, watermelon, strawberries, raspberries, eggplant, pumpkin, Brussels sprouts, parsley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agriculture: How to Shoot Santa Claus | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

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