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...ROOMS: TRIBUTE TO ELTON JOHN & BERNIE TAUPIN (ABC, Dec. 21, 9 p.m. EST). Rocket Man, Bennie and the Jets, Crocodile Rock and lots more John-Taupin hits are performed by Tina Turner, Sting, the Who, Elton himself and a galaxy of other rock stars in this salute to the two-decade career of the hugely successful songwriting team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Dec. 23, 1991 | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

When bees swarm, they have absolutely no incentive to sting anybody. They usually sting insensitive boors who kick their hives or stand half a foot away from them wearing black and threatening to steal their honey. (Bees don't like red or black, which look the same to them. Some ancestor of theirs had a traumatic experience when an ancient beekeeper fed them rancid molasses...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: The Bee Lie | 12/14/1991 | See Source »

...they're on vacation and stuffed to the gills. It's the closest they'll ever come to sex. Why would they want to sting anybody...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: The Bee Lie | 12/14/1991 | See Source »

...swarm of bees, they don't know all these things. People are afraid of bees. Any time a flying insect with stripes appears at a picnic, someone will yell "A BEE! A BEE! KILL IT!" They're afraid they might get stung. If one "bee" means one sting, a swarm must means THOUSANDS, right...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: The Bee Lie | 12/14/1991 | See Source »

...wasps, hornets and yellowjackets are mean little bastards. They'll sting anything in sight, over and over and over again, at the slightest provocation...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: The Bee Lie | 12/14/1991 | See Source »

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