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...combat. The young mother who reads it may have a degree in psychology from Michigan State, but as she cleans up after the puppy while trying to separate two children who are fighting over a linty piece of bubble gum, she may not be in the mood for compound-complex sentences. She may smile over a column by Art Buchwald, the master of the discovered absurdity, or one of Russell Baker's elegantly sane demonstrations that the world is crazy. But if she enlists in an army, it is likely to be Bombeck's. Am I really down...
...classic American style of moviemaking, unselfconscious and objective: he trusts the tale, not the teller. And he trusts his actors as well. As Geoffrey, Albert Finney staggers toward his doom on feet unsteadied not so much by booze as by the weight of the cross he bears, a compound of tormented memory and suffering intelligence. There is in his presence a nobility that elicits compassion along with admiration for the actor's work. Jacqueine Bisset and Anthony Andrews tread similarly delicate lines as Yvonne and Hugh, trying to cling to their dreams despite the rude, awakening noises of Geoffrey...
...recorders can be particularly maddening. A frequent mystery is how to connect the machines to television sets and antennas. Owners must often pick their way through mazes of diagrams and technical terms like "One-touch type F connector" that seem to have been written for licensed electricians. Some manuals compound the confusion with illustrations that differ from the actual machine. Notes the 46-page booklet for a Panasonic OmniVision model: "Please be assured that this difference is not due to mistake but to ongoing product improvement...
...Recalcitrants were beaten with a 3-ft. length of plastic pipe called "the rod of correction." Serious infractions were to be punished by days in a new jail cell. It was tiny, only 24 sq. ft., but then so were its prospective inmates, boys from five to 17. The compound in Walterboro, S.C., is not a prison but a Dickensian boarding school called the New Bethany Baptist Church Home for Boys. Police raided the place last week. Said Prosecutor Randolph Murdaugh: "I've never seen kids beaten as badly as they were beaten by those allegedly Christian people." School...
...Bourg St. Pierre have been trying in vain to collect the 30,254 gold francs they say they are owed. When President François Mitterrand visited Switzerland last year, they politely reminded him of the outstanding debt. They did not ask for a specific sum, however, because with compound interest the amount would have reached tens of millions of dollars...