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...circuit. "Larry resists getting swept along by the fashionable opinion of the day by being skeptical, by bringing his experience to bear and by a kind of demonic reporting. He bores in and doesn't accept glibness." Of course, we wouldn't suggest that any of this year's crop of politicians tend toward glibness, but here's fair warning: Larry Barrett is back on the campaign...
...Vegas' annual display of the latest beeping, blinking, thinking gadgetry. According to Personal Technology Research, a Waltham, Mass., firm, Americans spent $163 million buying 2.1 million electronic reference works last year, a total that is expected to grow 10% in 1992. Among the notable entries in this year's crop of pocket-size-book equivalents...
...CROP CIRCLES DEMYSTIFIED...
...Waterston's plodding earnestness can be a bit much, and the political- correctness level is inordinately high. But there is much truth and tenderness in this family drama set against a backdrop of racial tensions in a 1950s Southern community. Easily the best of a dismal crop of new network shows...
...victory of skeptical scientific inquiry over tabloid headlines. For 13 years people had been concocting increasingly bizarre explanations for those mysterious circles and lines pressed into the grain fields of southern England. Were they the landing sites of UFOs? No, the crop circles -- or at least some of them -- were the handiwork of a pair of elderly British landscape painters who engineered the elaborate hoax (with string and planks) "for a bit of a laugh...