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Some television executives criticize CBS the Thursday's children features as fluff and are uneasy about their inclusion in newscasts, contending that they are a form of advocacy. Says the news director of one of WXIA's rival stations in Atlanta: "They are a special service for a special group, and I could list 200 others that don't get that kind of play. But they can make a station seem to have a big heart...
...embark upon an uncomfortable honeymoon train rides to visit their parents back East. The audience is served up a platter of cute little vignettes of the trip (most of which are featured in the previews). This fluff is washed down by the soundtrack's particularly insipid cocktail of tinkling piano chords that bob around like ice cubes in a wash of syrupy strings...
...when a G&S company does decide to produce Utopia it should do a little cutting beforehand: two-and-a-half hours of this circuitous fluff could put even the most hyperactive of audience members to sleep. Not only is the production hampered by its length, but also most of the staging proves too distracting for the weak company to support. Noticeably lacking are introductory overtures before either of the acts. Ordinarily such music helps the audience enter into a nineteenth-century frame of mind. Instead, after a brief warm-up, the opera begins with a riotous choral entrance...
Such signs, which may seem to be no more than rhetorical fluff, should not be underestimated. Kremlinologists say that the Politburo uses Pravda and other papers as a mouthpiece for Soviet policy; the friendly comments put to paper last week represent a positive change--however small--in Soviet foreign policy. Reagan's MX move is sure to put a chill on this new-found warmth...
Going to the Dogs. To tourists, there are no cuter animals: cuddly, light brown bundles of fluff that kiss (to identify each other) and wag their tails. To farmers and ranchers of the Plains states, prairie dogs are a major nuisance: they feast on valuable grasslands and dig hidden burrows that can break the leg of a horse...