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...MUCH HERALDED "nuclear debate" of the past few years has often seemed little more than a shouting match. The Jonathan Schells holler about the immorality of weapons build-ups and the inevitability of nuclear conflict, the Caspar Weinbergers shout back about the immorality of weakness and the inevitability of Soviet adventurism Neither side takes the other seriously, and neither--because of the absolute moral terms in which their "debate" has been couched--deigns to consider more moderate views. Meanwhile the public remains largely uneducated about the complexities of nuclear strategy instead, individuals take sides based on whether they fear more...
With a whoop and a holler and a dash of down-home glitter, country music strutted onto cable television last week. The Nashville Network, a joint venture from WSM Inc. of Nashville (owners of the Grand Ole Opry) and Group W Satellite Communications, was beamed into some 7 million homes via 725 cable operators. It was the largest subscriber launch in the history of cable television. The inaugural evening featured five hours of live music by such country stars as Tammy Wynette, Emmylou Harris and Tanya Tucker as they sang at kickoff parties round the country. The Nashville Network, according...
...puts it, "He wanted attention. He wanted to be somebody." After watching his father Sam, an incorruptible six-term state legislator, go broke trying to raise crops in the merciless hill-country dirt, Lyndon opened a propaganda campaign against him. Whenever the boy received a mild thrashing, he would holler loud enough to be heard across Johnson City. He seemed, as Caro puts it, "to be going out of his way to reinforce the impression of his father's brutality." Then, as he did later in life, Johnson also exaggerated reports of his father's drinking, his mother...
...appears to be gratitude. "I love my kid, whether he ever played football or not," says the father softly, "but the part of him that made him so special, I loved that too. I'd say to him: 'Joey, it's not easy for me to holler at you; it kills me.' Joe understood. He wanted the things for himself that I wanted for him." Gentler still, the son says: "Sometimes I just want to tell him, 'You accomplished for me what you wanted; it's time for yourself...
...baby oil is key. Their handlers rub a thin film all over, not too much or they'll look greasy, but enough so the light will catch all the little hollows and ridges. One at a time they come out from the improvised dressing room, and their friends holler...