Word: founds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Writer Jack Skow started out thinking the story was simple enough. "Then," he says, "I found myself feeling as if I were trying to stop 4,000 Ping Pong balls from rolling off a table." Trying to pin down the mystique of Muppet mania, Skow first tried to attack the question scientifically, only to throw up his hands cheerfully in the end. Says he: "The trick in writing the story was to analyze the magic without destroying...
...karate chops of Miss Piggy. "It's magic," says Reporter-Researcher Janice Castro. "The Muppets have something that is real: straightforward humanity. All of their feelings are right out front. How can you not believe that they are real?" When Castro donned Trashman's costume, she even found herself thinking like a Muppet. Says she: "I felt as if I could...
...London economic summit meeting and halfway round the world to India. Members of Congress began to notice that they could call up Carter more easily and quickly than Hamilton Jordan, his chief aide. They did. Reporters wanted firsthand conversations with him. Special interests, like the blacks, no longer found satisfaction in complaining to Cabinet officers. They sought the President and they found...
...their study, Murray and Goldberg found that 20% of patients with interstitial nephritis (a major form of kidney disease) had histories of excessive long-term analgesic use. Most were women 35 or older who took analgesics for recurrent headaches or backaches. Concludes Murray: "Pain relievers work. But people who take too many may only be relieving one kind of discomfort to cause another...
Narrated by Ellellou, deposed and comfortably exiled in the South of France, the story has that sad, ironical tone of dis location found in the novels of Vladimir Nabokov. "All their languages were second languages . . . clumsy masks their thoughts must put on," are among Updike's Nabokovian touches...