Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...diversions, Zelig--like Lindbergh or the Lindbergh trial--helped satiate their leach-like needs. He toured on freak shows. He spurred a dance craze: the Chameleon rivalled the Charleston in popularity. He triggered a host of songs (Cole Porter once wrote "You're the tops, you're Leonard Zelig--except he couldn't find anything to rhyme with Zelig). Zelig paraphenalia--ashtrays, jewelry, and general knick-knacks--cropped up and sold briskly...
Though tugged in two directions, the network did not tear at once. Then president Frank Mankiewicz announced an ambitious state of money making ventures to make the organization self-sufficient, vowing to enter any profession except the oldest one" to establish fiscal independence. But these projects required initial outlays NPR could ill afford as Dave Stockman and company were flailing away with budget axes...
...very engrossing, but is it true? The reader is unfortunately told nothing about the pseudonymous Yao except that he is "a citizen of the People's Republic of China." Much of his account, moreover, rests on purported access to the memoirs of an official, top-secret investigator of the real events, who is also conveniently dead. The photographs in the book, taken from the official, secret Chinese investigation, are certainly authentic, but copies of them are also probably in the hands of half a dozen of the world's intelligence organizations...
...dailies, except sober Nikkei, are viewed by readers as lively, even racy, but generally are accurate, cover serious news, and strive for objectivity (Yomiuri is, however, a zealous cheerleader for its own holdings). A typical Page One of Yomiuri will include consumer-oriented Japanese news as well as reports, especially human interest, from abroad. Inside are an editorial page, sports, business and women's news. The paper diligently covers crime, but stories are rarely explicit about sex or gore. All Japanese newspapers are privately owned; indeed, none sells shares on a public exchange. At Yomiuri, as at its rivals...
...script and gag writer, combines the fecundity of Isaac Asimov, the antic regionalism of Erskine Caldwell and the solemn dedication of Inoue Proust. A lapsed Catholic, Inoue works in a monkish annex that he calls "the cockpit," next to his vast and growing collection of books. Except for dinner breaks with his wife of 21 years, he shuns company. "The world of imagination is my reality," he says. "I haven't left this house in a month." He refuses to attend parties, to undertake book tours or appear on TV interview shows; he is content to let his works...