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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lake Wobegon, Minn., is not on a map and is not listed in any atlas, but that does not bother the folks at the Chatterbox Cafe, who are munching an ethereal strawberry cream pie "that makes grown men cry and lose all ambition in life." Nor does it make much nevermind to the people waiting in line at Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery. And obviously they are not overly concerned at Bob's Bank, whose slogan-"Neither a borrower nor a lender be"-would cause terminal heartburn in the boardroom of Chase Manhattan. In fact, the only people...
...million or so fans. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun is one. Says he, urging a dose of Home Companion for the power brokers: "Washington, I suspect, could use a good bit of Lake Wobegon." Like Brigadoon or Camelot-Lake Wobegon has become a symbolic landmark, existing only on the map of the imagination. "Not everything that is real is on paper," says Keillor. "And if everything that is on paper were real, this would be a sorry world to live...
Video central is no longer New The York City, or Studio City, or even beautiful downtown Burbank. It is a place called Melonville, and it is not on the map. It exists only as the fictive setting for NBC's SCTV (for Second City Television), a show that originated in Canada and is the fastest, smartest 90 minutes on any TV channel, anywhere...
...midgets from their tree-and-shrub supervision. Their sin? "Wally here made a tree 300 feet tall, with pink leaves,...that smelled awful!" This is the tone of much of the humor--old hat, but cute. The dwarves were supposed to repair "holes in time" marked on a precious map of the universe. They instead pilfer the map to use it for inter-period ooting...
...Peter D. Hart Associates, a polling firm in Washington, so the statistical side of the Almanac fir right in with his vocation. But he adds, "Any number is an inadequate description of reality. Numbers are a science, reality is an art." Barone, the Chevy and a good road-map turned Ujifusa's notion into a reality...