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...something is wrong here: They're actually playing baseball. Now, for those of you who don't know, baseball is a summer sport. It's meant to be played on warm, sunny afternoons when you can take a picnic lunch to the field, soak up some sun and cheer on your favorite team...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Baseball on the Gridiron | 10/29/1981 | See Source »

...play. It came in the third inning. The Bears quarterstop threw a long pass, which they call a missile, to one of the left-fielders, who crossed the finish line into the "n"-zone for a home run to win the game. But everyone was too cold to cheer...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Baseball on the Gridiron | 10/29/1981 | See Source »

...parody, a feature on the people of Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, whose children have been turned into household appliances by radiation. The tone is perfect--genuine concern for the tragic victims, yet with a sense that everything will turn out all right in the end. The relentless good cheer comes through mostly in the writing. Snappy puns and appealing alliteration make everything seem a little less gloomy. To wit: "Some people, however, are wearing their nuclear designer genes with a smile...(or)...the problem has the Middletown populace as irritated as they are irradiated...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Wealth and Puberty | 10/21/1981 | See Source »

...same oblivious good cheer comes through in a feature called "Young Love Gives Millionaire Sidney Down a New Lease on Life," the story of a Las Vegas stripper's whirlwind courtship with an 87-year-old tycoon. "Sidney took Goldie for a brief spin in his private jet, gave her a $300,000 necklace...But it wasn't until after they'd exchanged vows, back in Nevada, that he revealed his startling secret--that he is one of the richest men in the country." In real life and in the parody, People assumes the best about people--try to think...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Wealth and Puberty | 10/21/1981 | See Source »

...Another cheer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Tired? Nyet! | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

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