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...July whenK-School professor Marvin Kalb invited eachpresidential hopeful for a televised one-on-oneinterview to be conducted before an audience inthe Arco Forum. Kalb, the Murrow Professor ofPress and Public Policy and former diplomaticcorrespondent for NBC, said that National PublicRadio and Public Television Stations had agreed tocarry the hour-long interviews...
There are saner approaches to highway stasis. Ken Jenson, 28, a Los Angeles salesman, used to spend much of his hour-long commute singing with the radio. Last year he stopped the music and began studying to become a stockbroker. "I made tapes of the texts and took notes while I listened on the drive to and from work," explains Jenson, who is now a broker in the Westwood office of Merrill Lynch. "It's amazing that I didn't hit anyone." Using the rear-view mirror, many men shave with electric razors and women often apply their makeup. Some...
After Magritte, which opens the evening, is a half hour-long exposition of the punchline to some joke based on a mildly obscure Magritte painting. A couple (Andrew Goldfarb and Susan Clafin) engaged in an absurd series of interior-decorating sight gags tries to reason out an event--possibly a crime--they saw in the street earlier that day. Standing in their cluttered set, they argue back and forth; if anyone fails to consider this unusual, Goldfarb's senile mother (Betsy Menes) intermittently plays the tuba to ensure a properly surrealist feel...
...Monday Chief of Staff Howard Baker and Iranscam Counselor David Abshire held an hour-long session with the President that focused on eight basic issues raised by the Tower commission report. The next morning Reagan was given what one aide called the "50 nastiest, dirtiest questions that could be dreamed up" about Iranscam. That afternoon he discussed them with Baker and Abshire...
...Swaggart's celebrity in Latin America is largely the creation of television. His hour-long weekly show is broadcast by 511 Latin American stations and draws more viewers than the program of any other U.S.-based TV evangelist. Among his devotees in San Jose was Rosario Orozco, 32, who said she often wakes up feeling sad, "but then the Lord tells me to turn on Jimmy Swaggart, and suddenly everything in life is precious." Swaggart is not only an orator whose incendiary style appeals to Latin Americans but a creditable gospel singer with a lively band. His proficient road crew...