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...over Paradise, the students gathered for a ceremony that ended with Castro's latest call to arms: Socialismo o Muerte! -- socialism or death. There was a barely audible laugh at the choice, but the answer came back: "Socialismo...
...Sinthasomphone is his homosexual lover. Dahmer happens to be a convicted child molester, but the police do not check him out. Instead of rescuing the young Laotian immigrant from Dahmer, who has since confessed to murdering and mutilating 17 men over the past 13 years, the cops seem to laugh off the incident as a gay love spat. They deliver the 14-year- old to Dahmer's apartment. And as soon as they leave, Dahmer reportedly proceeds to strangle the boy and dismember his body...
...lives on ideas. It turns facts into ideas, entertainments, moral positions." But that doesn't mean a pre-eminent magazine journalist need be stuffy and serious. "To think that he's a no- nonsense guy is nonsense," says his colleague Paul Gray. "When suitably amused, he has an explosive laugh that could shudder a sycamore at 60 paces." Ideas, Morrow believes, are like people: "Some are charming, some are noble, some are ugly or stupid." He helps TIME tell the difference, and that means...
...host of NBC's The Tonight Show beginning next May, Johnny Carson confides to his audience, "I want to tell young Jay Leno I've changed my mind; I'm gonna stay." And then Carson, the program's star since Jack Kennedy was President, barks out his brittle laugh and purports to lose himself in merriment...
...Swiss-watch timing, Carson brought a temperate temperature to Tonight after the Paar boil. But he did more: in his nightly monologue he helped set the nation's political and social agenda. When Johnny made jokes about Vietnam, Watergate, errant Senators or TV evangelists, he enabled the audience to laugh the problem away. "Nobody can figure out Johnny's politics," Leno says. "The joke comes first." The trouble is that Carson's monologues have stayed hip, while his studio audiences have grown duller, less attuned to the issues he makes fun of. The star now gets his biggest cheers when...