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...kept in a dark locker where the temperature hovered around 100° F and fed a subsistence diet of rice and water. When Thuy passed out, she would be roused by being drenched with a bucket of salt water and then raped again. Her kidnaped companion was treated the same way and then thrown overboard. Thuy was bartered, along with baskets of fish, to 14 other boats, where her ordeal continued. When the last pirates set her ashore, Thai authorities jailed her as an illegal immigrant. Two weeks later she was finally sent to a refugee holding camp in Songkhla...
...overly concerned at Bob's Bank, whose slogan-"Neither a borrower nor a lender be"-would cause terminal heartburn in the boardroom of Chase Manhattan. In fact, the only people feeling the strain are those innocents who tune in National Public Radio's A Prairie Home Companion for the first time and lack directions to visit all their new-heard friends in Lake Wobegon...
...industry and he believes that, despite TV, there is still an audience for a radio variety show, which is what the Opry and dozens of other shows of the '30s and '40s used to be. The producers of Minnesota Public Radio agreed. A Prairie Home Companion and Lake Wobegon (pop. 500) were the result...
...befits a variety show, A Prairie Home Companion has a little bit of everything, or everything that interests Keillor. There is a lot of music: bluegrass, folk, opera, jazz, blues, and visitors like Bill Staines, a yodeler, or Dr. Tom Weaver, who taps out the William Tell overture on his teeth. There are also letters from listeners and mock commercials. (The main "sponsor," Powdermilk Biscuits, promises to give shy people "the power to get up and do what needs to be done.") But the backbone of the program is Keillor's gravelly narration of the goings-on in Lake...
Such goings-on could not be contained in Minnesota, and in May 1980, Keillor's two-hour Prairie Home Companion, aired live from an auditorium with 1,000 seats, became an almost instantaneous hit on National Public Radio. Now heard in most parts of the country on Saturday night, it has acquired a devoted band of a million or so fans. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun is one. Says he, urging a dose of Home Companion for the power brokers: "Washington, I suspect, could use a good bit of Lake Wobegon." Like Brigadoon or Camelot-Lake Wobegon has become...