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Sunday, January 9--A super day for bowls, but a foul one for meals. You just knew the week would be a lulu when the scrambled eggs for brunch required a straw instead of a fork...
...cheesecake. In the U.S., Murdoch's three-year-old national Star (circ. 1.3 million) is a gaudy but not particularly profitable cousin of the mindless National Enquirer, and his San Antonio Express and News (combined circ. 156,000) is even worse (sample scoops: UNCLE TORTURES TOTS WITH HOT FORK, HANDLESS BODY FOUND, GIRLS STREAK AT GUNPOINT). Yet Murdoch also publishes Australia's only national daily, The Australian, which at least aspires to quality, and he is currently bidding to buy the respected London Observer...
...Caudill's rough estimate, a fifth of them could write no more than their names. In Caudill's grim image, southern Appalachia had become a sprawling welfare reservation of kept peoples, waiting in shanties and mobile homes, beside polluted streams, for the next government check. Poor Fork, Defeated, Hell-for-Certain-the town names tell the story...
...Orpheum. Random leaves, pages from the Good Book of Earthly and Other-Earthly bounty, are strewn about you as you assume your place at the end of the autumnal queue. "Good day, fellow concert patron," you intone with pious conviction. "How many of these crisp, green bills need I fork over to gain entrance to this Mighty Fortress...
...there was 500 tons of waste and slate and crap going into the ponds behind the dams every day, and so they silted up pretty quick. By February, 1972, the largest one over on Middle Fork, a tributary of Buffalo Creek, had been built: 100 feet high and 600 feet across...