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...Carrie Fisher, the actress daughter of Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, has been through drug problems of her own and gives her protagonist the kind of humor born from pain, anger and a strong will to live. The narrative voice is a bit like Holden Caulfield playing the Borscht Belt: "I'm a flash and the world is my pan." And: "I guess that's how guys are thoughtful in the '80s -- they accompany girls to their abortions." Postcards, which is really five connected vignettes, loses its bite when it strays from its emotional base in the clinic...
Stand-up comedy has been a staple of American entertainment since the heyday of the Borscht Belt. But the current boom is something new. TV has clearly played a major role, giving comedians national exposure and drawing on them for starring roles in sitcoms and Saturday Night Live. The intimacy between comic and audience, moreover, may be especially appealing in an age of high-tech movies and supersize rock concerts. Or it may simply be that the instant gratification of one-liners is perfectly suited to the short attention span of the TV-educated '80s audience...
...Nordhaus might have you believe. Significantly, the overcrowding of children into the PBH van in the Keylatch accident was a clear violation of existing PBHA policy; it is not something condoned by PBHA. In any event, one child in the front seat of the van with a seat belt on could have struck the driver's arm in the very same manner as the child in the Keylatch accident did, and the bus probably would have still flipped over, overloaded or not. Overcrowding of vehicles is wrong, yet the accident could happen at any time to anyone, transporting others...
Bankruptcies in the depressed Energy Belt are almost as common as ten-gallon hats, but the Texan who filed papers last week was no ordinary sad case: John Connally, 70, former Treasury Secretary, three-term Texas Governor and onetime presidential candidate. Connally applied under Chapter 11 for personal bankruptcy protection and under Chapter 7 to liquidate the failed real estate business he owned with Partner Ben Barnes, a former Lieutenant Governor. Between them, they owe an estimated $170 million...
Andre Dawson had the nerve to belt an offering from the Padres' Eric Show deep into the Wrigley Field bleachers. When Dawson came back looking for more, show fired an inside fastball that decked the Cubs slugger. While Dawson lay bleeding, the benches cleared...