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Personalities always cause debate, and in 1983 former Secretary of the Interior James Watt, ex-National Security Adviser (and Watt's replacement at the Department of Interior) William Clark and Comedian Joan Rivers ("tasteless and cruel") drew the public's ire. Yet readers rose to defend celebrities they deemed badly treated-such as the late anchorwoman Jessica Savitch and Elizabeth Taylor ("Why do journalists feel compelled to constantly snipe at Elizabeth Taylor's weight?" chided...
...long hill on Route 283 and head southeast toward Swatara. Three Mile Island also dominates the thoughts of people who live in the area's small towns and rolling farm lands. "I can't look at those things without remembering what happened five years ago," says Joan Start, who fled with her two small children from Middletown, Pa., to Ohio when the plant came close to a meltdown in March...
...networks are also de-emphasizing daily stories from the bus or plane. Says CBS News Vice President Joan Richman: "We have made some effort this year to report the campaign in a broader context and to lessen the sort of fragmentary coverage you get when your only reporting is from each individual candidate." CBS Correspondents Susan Spencer and Lem Tucker have been encouraged to step back from the Mondale and Glenn buses to work on "big picture" stories. Other analytical pieces on specific issues or themes have been done by each network's senior political reporters...
...talked down middle managers. Halfway through the project he demoralized the designers by demanding that they produce an entirely new look. He also irritated engineers by refusing to let them show Macintosh to friends, even though he was giving special peeks to outsiders like his onetime crush, Folk Singer Joan Baez...
...death last week of Joan Miró, at 90, was a vivid reminder of the antiquity of modernism. The old surrealist, whose work was once so startling to received taste (a half-century ago, you did not give paintings titles like Two Figures Standing Before a Pile of Excrement without offending someone), received the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church; his death was attended by the priests whom surrealism, a profoundly Catholic movement, once despised. Miró was the last of the great modernist inventors, if you concede that neither Salvador Dali nor Marc Chagall, both still alive...