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Ginger, their leader, is not one to chicken out. Told the chances of escaping are a million to one, she replies, "Then there's still a chance." But she knows she faces longer odds than the pows of Stalag 17 or The Great Escape. Those lads might have been killed. Ginger and her brood--the chickens of Tweedy's Farm--may get cooked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Run, Chicken Run! | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...vainly promises to teach the hens--this coop of flighty, flightless birds--how to soar to freedom. But while Rocky the flying churl plays up to "all the beautiful English chicks," Mrs. Tweedy has bigger, nastier plans. She has bought a machine that will turn her chicken stalag into a factory for chicken pies. The prison camp is to be a death camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Run, Chicken Run! | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

Stranded on a desert island, Bush would take his fishing rod and a Bible, while McCain hopes for a satellite dish, perhaps because he had to rely on memory to entertain his fellow prisoners of war with narrations of Stalag 17 and One Eyed Jacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: By Their Quirks Ye Shall Know Them | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

...overhead running $30,000 a day. The guardhouse, it turns out, is coming along nicely, except for some ugly screens, which Singh promptly removes from the muntined French doors. He peers at a Government facility up the road: "Now we gotta get the Navy to straighten out the Stalag 13 look there. Those guys are so subtle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Key West, Florida Pritam Singh's Strange Career | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...absolution to the food. The officers' club has been stripped of its jukebox and banners; only the lingering perfume of Major Margaret ("Hot Lips") Houlihan (Loretta Swit) will drive the ghost of Major Frank Burns (Larry Linville) into rages of ecstasy. And in the most famous barracks since Stalag 17-Hawkeye Pierce's Swamp-the cots, footlockers, stove, framed pictures and even the distillery are gone. The giggles and groans of Trapper John (Wayne Rogers) and B.J. Hunnicut (Mike Farrell) and Charles Emerson Winchester III (David Ogden Stiers) are now distant, poignant echoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: M*A*S*H, You Were a Smash | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

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