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...PRESIDENT TOM JOHNSON'S top priority has been to strengthen the network's overseas channel. Currently, CNN International is a mix of domestic CNN, Headline News (its news-radio-like companion service) and 3 1/2 hours a day of original fare aimed at the audience abroad. The channel broadcast most of the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings but presented only half-hour daily summations of the Smith rape trial. Many overseas viewers, though glued to CNN during major events, find its day-to-day programming parochial and its international coverage thin. Viewers in some parts of Asia have been turning...
...Prospects are not entirely dim. Japan, for instance, has warned North Korea that it will not get any of the Japanese trade and investment its nose-diving economy desperately needs until it drops its nuclear-weapons program. North Korea has promised to open up to IAEA inspection if a companion inspection proves there are no American nuclear weapons in South Korea. If North Korea does allow inspections, U.S. officials have evidence that they believe will force the IAEA to demand to see all of Pyongyang's major nuclear facilities -- but that still would not guarantee that bomb building would...
...RADIO ROMANCE by Garrison Keillor (Viking; $21.95). The inventor and host of public radio's A Prairie Home Companion turns in a loopy, endearing novel about the golden days of the talking box and some of those folks behind the microphones. It is the 1930s, and the staff at Minneapolis' fictional WLT can't believe that what they are doing is work and that such good times will last. They...
Garrison Keillor's first novel, WLT: A Radio Romance, trips off his tongue as smoothly as an old-time Lutheran gospel, and it flows as easily as sketches on his old radio show, A Prairie Home Companion. WLT is the latest of several published works, but anyone who has heard Keillor spin tales about Lake Wobegon-told between wheezes and long pauses-or any of his favorite topics cannot separate the literary voice from the oral tradition, the printed text from the waves of sound...
When Garrison Keillor reinvented the radio variety show some years ago with his Prairie Home Companion program Saturday evenings on public radio, the driving emotional force was a shameless, moony nostalgia for the never-was. But misty reminiscence taken straight out of the bottle is saccharine. What gives Keillor's wamblings about Midwestern small-timers their cutting edge (they continue on his new American Radio Company show) is a rare mix of exile's longing and eye-rolling exasperation. Were we really that awful, and was it really that grand...