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Montgomery said that the purpose of the class was to see what it was really like to produce such plays in Medieval England. The students' translations maintained the same rhyme scheme and meter of the original language...

Author: By Candace Kaller, | Title: Passion Plays Produced By English Class | 12/10/1976 | See Source »

...line part on a John Lennon-Yoko Ono record album. Prime Cut, which featured Spacek as a piece of hollow-eyed jailbait, did at least manage to get across a little of her country-fresh, city-smudged sensuality. Spacek (the name is Czechoslovakian, and is pronounced to rhyme with "basic") looks a little like a White Rock girl who slipped off the soda bottle to spend a summer in the old Haight. That quality of naivete and simultaneous sophistication is an excellent tool for an actress, one that Spacek is clearly adept at using; although she insists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Basic Spacek: Keeping Life Tidy | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...know the 'Early to Bed, Early to Rise, Makes a Man Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise' rhyme?" she offers, rhetorically, and then snickers. "Well...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: A Long Night's Journey Into Day | 10/14/1976 | See Source »

George Reedy, Lyndon Johnson's press secretary and now dean of Marquette University's journalism college, attributes the Democrats' pale, shallow support of Carter to the "Dr. Fell syndrome"?after the old English nursery rhyme: "I do not like thee, Dr. Fell./ The reason why I cannot tell./ But this I know, and know full well/ I do not like thee, Dr. Fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ELECTION: CAMPAIGN KICKOFF | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

...important to agriculture. Nectar-sucking insects, especially bees, pollinate flowering plants, and bees are the source of the honey that sugar-loving humans consume in great quantities each year. Other insects are also considered beneficial. The attractive red and black ladybird beetle, or ladybug, celebrated in the nursery rhyme, eats aphids and other small insects?to the gardener's delight. Before the development of dyes made from coal-tar derivatives, a scale insect provided the world with red dye; other species of scale insects are still used in the manufacture of shellac. The flesh-eating larvae of the dermestid beetle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bugs Are Coming | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

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