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...Comic), Martin Mull (the Fernwood 2-Night talk-show host), Andy Kaufman (heterosexual wrestling), Lily Tomlin (Wayne Newton) and the now-ready-for-prime-time cutups of NBC's Saturday Night Live. It took over TV years ago-in 1975, when S.N.L. hit the air and became a focal point for the new comedy. With success came healthy midnight ratings for NBC, and with the ratings came the inevitable imitation, ABC's Fridays. S.N.L. Alumnus Harry Shearer calls Fridays "the Cloneheads"; but when the show was in direct competition with the Tonight Show, it frequently drew more viewers...
Like ghosts haunting the attic of their past, the 52 American hostages continue to provoke shrill quarrels among their Iranian tormentors. Last week the circumstances of their negotiated release grew into the focal issue of the country's internal political struggle. Each of the opposing positions was riddled with Persian irony and paradox...
Indeed, the fault did not lie with the Crimson at all; rather, Princeton's team effort outstripped Harvard's generally lackluster performance. Today, we will see whether the Crimson swimmers can exact a measure of revenge in this focal point of their season...
Almost all of those afflicted are women-also true of the better-known eating disorder anorexia nervosa, the "starvation disease." Like anorectics, some bulimarectics seem to come from homes where food was important and therefore a focal point for power struggles and gibes about weight. Anorectics are mostly shy, withdrawn females who develop their symptoms around the onset of puberty. Bulimarectics tend to be extraverted, successful perfectionists who start the gorging behavior in their late teens, and often have trouble seeing their problem as more than an idiosyncrasy-one reason why it is so little known to the public. Anorectics...
...after so many years of being attuned to the subtleties of electoral opinion, suddenly lost touch with the nation's growing disillusionment over the war. Miller throws the MacPherson interview out as if it were one more bit of gossip, just another interview, instead of using it as a focal point to organize some interpretation of Johnson's failures...