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...Rosslyn, Va., are still under construction. But four network-credentialed anchors -- NBC's Bill Macatee and Robin Young and ABC's Edie Magnus and Kenneth Walker -- have been hired, and Friedman sounds confident that he has caught the next video wave. Says he: "This is television for the '90s." Gulp...
Armed with an abacus (reluctantly traded later for a calculator), she drafted editorial budgets that displayed an uncanny ability to predict the number of wars, snap elections and natural disasters that would occur and thus add to the cost of news coverage. Watt also (gulp!) reviewed our expense accounts. "God help anybody who tried to fool her," says Consulting Picture Editor Arnold Drapkin. "But she was probably the best friend of everybody out in the field." That was certainly true in the case of the photographer who tried to sneak an elephant past her. "I said, 'What the heck...
...escaped the notice of most members of Congress, as well as of President Reagan, who signed it into law. And no wonder: the legislation that included the provision was 2,100 pages long, and it lumped together 13 appropriations bills that should have been passed individually. In one gargantuan gulp, the omnibus bill amounted to $603.9 billion, or nearly two-thirds of the total funding for Federal Government operations in fiscal...
...most successful new dolls have come, once again, from Coleco. Today's $125 Cabbage Patch Kids use the voices of real four-year-old girls. They gulp daintily as they sip from their special cups, giggle if they are tickled and complain when they are turned upside down. Eeriest of all, they can sense, by sending and receiving radio waves, when other talking Cabbage Patch Kids are near. When one doll passes within 25 ft. of another, it calls, "Hi, there! Hey, look who's here! It's my cousin!" The dolls may then break into a round...
Well, the world did end and without my book review or anything resembling the odious practice of playing with another man's art, his soul, to please thousands of brain-addled air junkies who gulp the stuff like it could make their lives worth living. No, live alone, fair book, and prosper without the words of praise I can shower upon you in my giddy bout of pseudo-creativity...