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...refugee in Weimar Berlin, he began his brilliant literary career while earning his living by teaching English and tennis. But he also supplemented his income as a movie extra and even wrote a film scenario titled The Love of a Dwarf. The unproduced script became the short story The Potato Elf, his first work to appear in the U.S. (Esquire, 1939). Nabokov's literary combativeness has been well chronicled, but he has also been a man who would not sit on his hands if personal honor was offended. He once punched a tipsy German who had insulted the writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Casting the First Shadow | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

Families more concerned with their roots than with their branches and leaves are like potato plants-the best parts are underground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1977 | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...able ta make it and ya got your teeth in a jar and those teeth say, 'Yes I can, yes I can.' [At this point Sister Boogie Woman puffs with exertion.] 'Yes I can. Yes I can.' I say think of yourself as a potato chip and life as a dip. I say think of yourself as a chicken leg and life as Shake 'n Bake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lily... Ernestine...Tess...Lupe...Edith Ann.. | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

Amber Jim asked Gilmore what TV shows he liked best. He didn't watch TV, but he liked to go to drive-in movies and eat popcorn and potato chips with his girl friend, Nicole Barrett. Music? He liked all kinds, Gilmore confided, but cowboy music most-Hank Williams, Johnny Cash. And who did he think he had been in previous incarnations? Perhaps an Indian. "I feel close to Indians, and Indians like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Idyll of Gary and Amber Jim | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

...disabled), which earlier picked up what may have been the only Marsquake to have occurred so far during the mission. They also plan to maneuver one of the Viking orbiters to within 50 kilometers (31 miles) of Phobos in order to get high-resolution pictures of the tiny, potato-shaped Martian moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Thoughts On Mars | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

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