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...first pitch he threw resulted in a freak line drive off the elbow of his pitching arm. Johnston was sidelined for three weeks...
...Pennsylvania company accused of selling machine tools to Iraq was loaded, irrelevantly, with grieving parents of dead U.S. soldiers. A story on forecasting failures at the National Weather Service tried to clinch its case by coaxing tears from a woman whose husband had been killed by a freak storm. Ratings so far are promising, alas...
...Johnny Carson phenomenon will probably never be fully explainable. "The idea that one man, basically unscripted, could last on TV for 30 years -- it's a freak of television," marvels Jeff Sagansky, a former NBC program executive and now president of CBS Entertainment. And like most freak accidents, it probably will never happen again. Carson's retirement is another milestone in the slow withering of the network mass audience. Even if Leno manages to succeed, much of Carson's audience will undoubtedly disperse to other hosts and other shows. TV's late-night living room will never be quite...
Clark cannot help but laugh as he shares with his audience "a good way to freak somebody out" in a suburban laundromat. Sprinkling soda water on his face to simulate nervous perspiration and biting his nails viciously, Clark asks, "How are you guys at getting blood out of things? No, I mean a lot of blood. I can get it off the wall...
TSONGAS THE SERIOUS. Looking at what passes for Tsongas' national campaign, it is tempting to dismiss his strong New Hampshire finish as a freak of nature. Tsongas is, after all, a contender who introduced Texas railroad commissioner Bob Krueger as "my Southern connection" and meant it: that is about all the organizational support Tsongas has in many March primary states. The campaign last week had just one staff member in Georgia and a lone 19-year-old holding down the fort in South Carolina. True, Tsongas raised $360,000 the day after New Hampshire, but he still largely depends...