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Soybean disease found in Louisiana, USDA announces.
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Byline: Andrew Martin
WASHINGTON _ News of a potentially devastating fungus discovered on soybean plants in Louisiana caused a wave of nervousness across the Midwest on Wednesday as farmers worried that that it would eventually spread north and wreak havoc on their soybean crop.
Officials with the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Wednesday said that they had found soybean rust _ which has cost Brazil billions of dollars in lost yields _ on two plots of land on research farms operated by Louisiana State University near Baton Rouge.
The USDA ...
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Six Medieval French Farces.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Newspaper article from: Reviewer's Bookwatch
; ...Six Medieval French Farces provides students and...compilation include "The Farce of the Miller" (La...Gentleman and Nauder" (La farce du gentilhomme et Naudet...Original Text--from the Farce of the Miller), each...Six Medieval French Farces is a worth addition to...
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Sara Beam. Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama
; ...between 1450 and 1550 the heyday of farce, Beam argues that farce's bawdy humor was tolerated...one's personal honor (18). Farces often pointed lessons of obedience...energies (58). Beam notes that farce was always somewhat controlled...
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The Farce still a force; Comedy troupe going off the air despite ratings spike.(Go)
Newspaper article from: The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, Ontario)
; ...Farcers took final bows in Toronto last week at the last Farce taping. Air Farce Final Flight New Year's Eve Special airs Dec. 31 on CBC-TV. Lauzon was bemoaning the fact that Air Farce was being grounded at a time when Canadian and American...
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Priscilla Melendez. The Politics of Farce in Contemporary Spanish American Theatre.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Symposium
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Putting the 'haute' back into the 'haute dame de Paris': the politics and performance of Rabelais's Radical Farce.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: French Forum
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The Rashomon of Farces: Noises Off Leaves Us Rolling.(Arts&Entertainment)(Review)
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY)
; ...an unbelievably bad English farce performed by a tatty provincial...who are even worse than the farce they're performing. Mr...terrible real-life West End farces, No Sex, Please--We're...to. Nothing On, the inner farce of Noises Off, is therefore...
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Theatre: Oh my! That's a big comeback you've got there It's just a puerile, sexist form of popular entertainment, isn't it? Veronica Lee makes the case for farce
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...the 1920s to 1940s), when farce sank into a cliche of the blue...theatre of the past few decades, farce had had its day. But lately...no less, has presented two farces - Alan Ayckbourn's House...in the past year. Now a new farce, Under the Doctor, is about...
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ARTS & FARCES' Information Eclipse Cautions Citizens in Ever-More Wired Era.
PR Newswire
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Mistaken identity starts a bedroom farce
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'Farce' has culinary meaning
Newspaper article from: Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
; ...century, English adopted "farce" (spelling it "farse" until...stuffing or forcemeat." ("Farce" is ultimately derived from...The comedic sense of "farce" dates back to the 16th century...performances of religious plays. Such farces, which included clowning...
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