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Glogauer and his opportunistic opponents are ex-garment district New York furriers. The playwrights also perceived that the place was a squirrel's paradise. The norm was then, and now, nuttiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Tower of Babble | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

...tracker's real training comes from years of hunting in the thick oak and hickory woods or gathering ginseng roots, which sell for $75 a pound and are used as a tonic to prolong sexual endurance. Notes Guard Rich Trail, 20: "I've been goin' squirrel huntin' and coon huntin' and ground hog huntin' and rabbit huntin' as long as I can remember." Adds Guard Sammy Joe Chapman, 33, who caught Ray and the last escapee, Douglas Shelton: "Coon hunting at night is good training for tracking down James Earl Ray and those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: How the Mountain Men Did It | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...year, v. 0.6% for the liquor industry as a whole. Besides its "full-strength" (up to 75 proof) cocktails such as tequila sunrises and mai tais, Heublein is also marketing drinks with less punch (as low as 25 proof) but more in the way of vivid color: the Pink Squirrel, for instance, could be taken for Pepto-Bismol. Schenley is bidding for a share of the premixed market with a new line of twelve drinks-including an apricot sour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEVERAGES: Sweet Spirits | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

...young rodent hopped to life in the pages of a cautionary tale. His name was Peter, and he was to become the most celebrated rabbit since the Easter Bunny. Now, upon his 75th birthday, the little creature betrays no signs of age-or, for that matter, maturity. Nor do Squirrel Nutkin, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Tom Kitten or any of the other animals in the watercolor menagerie of Beatrix Potter. The writer was a victim of Victorian repression -she did not leave home until the age of 47-and her prose is marked with arch names and marred with punishments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Happy Birthday, Peter Rabbit and Friends | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...superclarity of the camera's vision lends these pictures an uncanny surrealism. The trees in Wing's pictures, or Germano's, have leaves that are leafier than any your eyes perceive. To see like this is frighteningly immediate and imminent; it's like hearing the grass grow, or a squirrel's heartbeat...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Shocking Pink Pines | 3/19/1977 | See Source »

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