Word: heartburning
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...HEARTBURN by Nora Ephron; Knopf; 179 pages...
...lose all ambition in life." Nor does it make much nevermind to the people waiting in line at Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery. And obviously they are not overly concerned at Bob's Bank, whose slogan-"Neither a borrower nor a lender be"-would cause terminal heartburn in the boardroom of Chase Manhattan. In fact, the only people feeling the strain are those innocents who tune in National Public Radio's A Prairie Home Companion for the first time and lack directions to visit all their new-heard friends in Lake Wobegon...
...been called brilliant, thoughtful, incisive and screamingly funny. Also, vicious, infuriating, cruel and unfair. NBC President Fred Silverman no longer returns his calls. His thrice-weekly Washington Post TV column, "On the Air," syndicated in 59 other newspapers, causes teeth-gnashing in Hollywood and heartburn in Manhattan's network headquarters. Critic Tom Shales, 33, the plump, droll, sometimes zany man at the heart of all this Sturm und Drang, puts his brown-and-tan saddle shoes up on the desk in his cramped fifth-floor office at the Post and shrugs off all the fuss: "The networks...
...straw-filled scarecrow wild man the Carter people created. Reporting gave the voters a plausible portrait of a 9-to-5 executive, only passably informed, given to exaggerated remarks but cautious in action, who wants complicated problems reduced to Reader's Digest brevity, then decides about them without heartburn...
Thus he could keep on doing as well as he did last week, when he won 57% of the delegates, and still lose the nomination. Said a Carter adviser: "Everybody knows that we are not going to get through the rest of it without heartburn. But the flip side of 62% is 38%, and it's just not in the cards for us to do that badly." Nonetheless, because of Kennedy's upset victories last week, he now seems likely to struggle on until the finish, on June 3, when Democrats at primaries in California, New Jersey, Ohio...