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American media saturates the Spanish airwaves. During siesta time, I would watch Mr. T beat the bad guys on "The A-Team" and relive "Growing Pains" with Mike, Ben and Carol Seaver. In fact, the people of Spain have elevated cheesy American sitcoms and made-for-TV movies to the rarefied status of telenovelas. And the more crime and sex, the better: These decade-old American exports are invariably about a wife driven to infidelity by her husband's extramarital affairs; she takes a teenage lover, convinces him to murder her husband and, of course, mayhem results...
...sensitivity to the issue. "You have to exercise judgment when you know competitive forces are going to exercise less judgment and less taste," says Mort Zuckerman, publisher of the New York Daily News. In a letter to readers in this week's PEOPLE (published by Time Inc.), managing editor Carol Wallace writes that decisions on whether or not to use paparazzi photos are made "on a case-by-case basis, weighing the news value of a picture against a story subject's right to peace and privacy...
...Joyce Carol Oates is the author of a number of works of fiction. Her latest, Man Crazy, is being published this month
...upstairs to help run the adult service. But before they got there, a timed-explosive device planted under the church steps ripped massive holes in the side of the building, sending stone, glass and metal flying in every direction. Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins and Carol Robertson--ages 11 to 14--died in the blast. Even during the bloodiest days of racial conflict in the South, even in a city so beset by explosives that it was nicknamed Bombingham, this was a uniquely shocking crime. Recalls Representative John Lewis of Georgia, a civil rights veteran...
...SENATOR CAROL MOSELEY-BRAUN (Democrat, Illinois) Hamburgers or hot dogs? "Hot dogs." Mustard or catsup? "Catsup. [Columnist Mike] Royko once attacked her by saying no real Chicagoan would put catsup on a hot dog. But he's dead...