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Pumpk-in-related festivities have been going on since Thursday, when the Freshman Council announced the results of its pumpkin-carving contest. Of the 19 process-group entrants, a Hurlbut group walked off with the prize for the most amusing pumpkin, a rendition of the Harvard square "instant astrologer...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramnick, | Title: Trick-or-Treating, Drinking Herald Halloween Here | 10/29/1983 | See Source »

Other notable entries were a punk pumpkin complete with a safety pin in its ear, and a pumpkin in labeled...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramnick, | Title: Trick-or-Treating, Drinking Herald Halloween Here | 10/29/1983 | See Source »

...been punished for his sins at the precise point of origin." She could not resist communicating the dictum that was pronounced upon Charles by Ninon de 1'Enclos, the celebrated courtesan: "His soul is made of mush, his body of wet paper and his heart is like a pumpkin fricasseed in snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Correspondent | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

...pumpkin vine phone is a ten party line. When you want to use it you have to take down the receiver and listen while some good sister tells some other good sister, who is not so wise, how to make butter or how to raise chickens or when it is the right time in the moon to plant onion sets or something else equally important. . . if someone would invent a contraption to shut out the other nine when a person wanted to use the tenth he would be richer and more famous than Edison. But he'd be forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Truman: I Gave Them an Earful | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

...this new project, Smilgis had a long afternoon of conversation with Spielberg at his beach house just north of Malibu. Says she: "Steven made me a great lunch. His mother sent over curried chicken, and he supplied salmon, tuna fish, fresh fruit salad and his own specialty, freshly baked pumpkin bread. Food is his hobby." Smilgis' assignments are not always so appealing. As part of covering her beat in Los Angeles, she screens an average of two films a week and is not moved by many of them. But after viewing E.T., she was moved to say: "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: May 31, 1982 | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

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