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Overall, the Post is better written with a pervading sense of self-deprecating irony. The Times, like a baseball manager who sends in a designated hitter, achieves its lighter effects with designated humorists: Israel Shenker, who merrily wanders the halls of academe, or Columnist Russell Baker, the best satirist in the American press. The Post's daily Style section takes itself less seriously than does the Times in its cultural coverage; but then in Washington there is less to take seriously, even if you add in the Kennedy Center and the Hirshhorn Museum. The Style section's reportorial...
...might expect the songs on the album to promise a lighter hand, a more cohesive structure, or at least a more familiar form. After all, something has to sell the record. The themes are typically Bowie: alienation, isolation, the longing for and the fear of communication. Naturally, the synthetics he has adopted permeate the songs. Although they're sometimes stilted in form, the songs are less pretentious than the instrumentals and far easier to tolerate...
American contenders for the championship of every weight classification, and particularly to spur interest in the lighter divisions (welterweight, lightweight and featherweight), long overlooked by the U.S. public. For most of the fighters, the tournament is an opportunity to take part in a real-life version of the film Rocky. Many of these "courageous warriors," as King called them, have until now scratched out meager livings as garbage men, roofers or bar bouncers while they pursued dreams of championships. Until they performed in front of the 3,000 Navy men and women at ringside-and, more important, the network...
...early start on meeting federal reg-ulatioris that require U.S.-made autos to average 27.5 m.p.g. by 1985, GM has ' taken a multi-billion-dollar gamble in shrinking the size and weight of its cars. The public's approval of the lighter and crisply styled autos has delighted GM executives. Cadillac, which brought out its Mercedes-size Seville, experienced its best year ever in 1976. For the first time, Oldsmobile's intermediate-size Cutlass shoved aside Chevrolet and Ford to become the nation's bestselling single make (514,593 cars). Pontiac, which also concentrated on intermediate...
...those bowl games have been very stimulating. One of my favorites was the Peach Bowl, broadcast on the afternoon of New Year's Eve by the Mizlou television network. Mislou had a nifty revolutionary device dubbe the "isolite," which consisted of a spot on the screen much lighter than the rest of the screen. Supposedly it was to show some significant move by one of the players, although in reality, it showed a large group of players converging in the middle of the screen, making it hard to distinguish anything...