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...Jacksons' Victory Tour, undertaken by Michael and his brothers as a fond and hugely remunerative farewell to familial musicmaking, was one of the most eagerly awaited and certainly the most ballyhooed pop-concert series of the year. It had also started to become the most controversial, in part because the tour organizers seemed at odds with one another and with the ideals that Michael, especially, has tried to embody. Tickets were too pricey; lots of fans were getting cut out. Disorganization and ill will were rampant. Greed was keeping pace with showmanship and good p.r. manners, and seemed...
...Central American revolutions and the Miami cocaine epidemic, McWhirter at first approached the assignment more as a fringe benefit than a job. Then he began to worry whether he was quite ready for a warm, wisecracking columnist whose chief concerns are the household gods. Says he: "Some journalists are fond of saying that the nice guys are the toughest, nice subjects the hardest. I didn't know: I could not remember the last time I had met one. What if I were to become the only person on earth to meet Erma Bombeck and not like...
...Prince William's wardrobe, her best work pokes giggles into the generation gap. Climbing three flights of stairs to inspect her 23-year-old son's first apartment left her feeling "like Jane Fonda's mother in Barefoot in the Park." Her teen-age daughter is fond of making over Mother: "Mom, lemme mayo your hair." And a saccharine greeting card, "To a Special Daughter," prompted Dykstra to write: "It's their knack for leaving razors face up in the shower that makes them special...
...after Animal House, in which he played the definitive slob frat boy, had become one of the top-grossing movie comedies of all time. It is impossible not to care a little about the man who could make such an observation, just as it is difficult not to be fond of someone who, in the middle of a furious brawl with his brother, could observe, "This is just like East of Eden." But Wired, so full of details, is so short on insight that Belushi never becomes any larger or more understandable than a gifted guy who pigged...
...Bisho, his capital city, in a black Cadillac. Then, guarded by a gang of security men in ill-fitting suits and sunglasses, Sebe led a flag-waving crowd through a spirited rendition of Lord Bless Africa, the national anthem. "The golden egg of development has been laid," Sebe is fond of saying. "It is now up to Ciskei and its people to see that the chicken of prosperity is raised with loving care...