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...ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BAD TASTE by Jane and Michael Stern (HarperCollins; $29.99). If it weren't for bad taste, most people wouldn't have any taste at all. That seems to be the thesis of this arch and witty catalog of American kitsch. A sampler: Nehru jackets, vanity license plates, bell-bottoms. The authors treat their subject with affection and condescension; in other words, they are tasteful about bad taste...
...some measures, is booming. Because news shows are cheaper to produce than entertainment fare, they are in demand at the networks. Four hours of news programming is now seen weekly in prime time. NBC will add another hour in January -- a half-hour version of Real Life with Jane Pauley and the investigative series Expose -- as well as an afternoon show hosted by Faith Daniels. CBS's America Tonight has joined the late-night schedule (though it will leave the air, at least temporarily, in late January), and ABC has talked about doing all-night news...
REPORTER-RESEARCHERS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, Jeanne- Marie North, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Audrey Ball, Bernard Baumohl, David Bjerklie, Rosemary Byrnes, Val Castronovo, Nancy McD. Chase, Oscar Chiang, John E. Gallagher, Lois Gilman, Tam Martinides Gray, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Katherine Mihok, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Nancy Newman, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, David M. Gross...
...other business, Duehay announced his engagement to Jane Kenworthy Lewis. Duehay said that he and Lewis, a Cambridge resident and an attorney with the the state Supreme Judicial Court, would be married in January...
...some experts, the capacitor discovery was a chilling indication that Iraq might be on the verge of building a nuclear bomb. Says Paul Beaver, publisher of the authoritative Jane's Defense Weekly: "Saddam is getting close to when he will need that part of the nuclear mechanism." Other experts strongly disagree. U.S. intelligence officials, despite the Administration's alarms, insist that Iraq is not on a fast track to being able to produce anything more than a single low-yield device...