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RICKI AND THE OTHER MEDIA SLEAZE merchants are simply giving the people what they want. It worked for P.T. Barnum, and it still works today...
...even some of Whittle's fans have begun to worry that their beau ideal -- who has said "few people really know me" -- may be closer to the fast- talking Barnum portrayed by critics. Last week Whittle Communications L.P. announced the latest in a string of setbacks. The company will halt development of the Medical News Network, an interactive news service with infomercials for doctors that was scheduled for a nationwide launch in October...
...movie would of course be redundant. This was already the perfect living-room entertainment: Barnum & Bailey meets Barnaby Jones. But it was also an education in TV watching. With no laugh track, no sobbing violins, viewers had to decide for themselves how to react to this bizarre and compelling summer series. How, for example, to decipher the soul behind a face as beautiful, iconic and unknowable as O.J. Simpson's? On Friday he listened to the coroner's droning, explicit testimony of the wounds that caused Nicole Simpson's death. Raw emotion played on his features, but what emotion? Shock...
...Eastern Sprints, the most important race to date, a bizzare mistake a quarter of the way through the race knocked out the front-running lightweights. Jeremy Barnum made a devastating faux pas at the 450-meter mark in the race. The senior "caught a crab," allowing his oar to bounce akwardly into the water. Harvard wound up finishing an absurd fifth...
...article on the men's crew on Wednesday's sports page erred in reporting that senior Chris McGarry 'caught a crab' in the varsity lightweight finals this weekend. Senior Jeremy Barnum 'caught the crab...