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...better job of reproducing the intimate intensity of King's radio program. He appears on a starkly decorated set, sitting directly across from guests who are shot in what may be the tightest close-ups on TV. King's warm radio baritone is less enveloping on TV, and the mere sight of the technology needed for his phone-in segments (buttons popping, lights blinking) destroys the illusion of control that radio creates. Still, King has made an effective outlet of the new format. He has discussed politics with former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, questioned House Speaker Tip O'Neill about...
...crackdown will have a similar effect remains to be seen. Last week the Financial Mail, a Johannesburg newsweekly, ran a cover story titled "The Townships at War." The cover illustration of rising flames included a quotation from a poem by W.B. Yeats: "Things fall apart; The centre cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world." South Africans could not help wondering if that was a comment or a prediction. --By Jill Smolowe. Reported by Bruce W. Nelan/Johannesburg
...those days most Japanese buildings were made of wood; when the Bomb dropped, all but one or two of the structures that stood near the hypo-center of the explosion were flattened like paper hats. Kawamoto's school, the Hiroshima Prefectural First Middle School, stood only 800 meters, a mere half-mile, from the hypocenter. Two-thirds of his classmates were killed instantly where they sat at their desks. Some who survived were weeping and calling for their mothers. Others began singing the school song to bolster their courage and to let passersby know that the 13-year-olds were...
...into a synthetic whole. The cut-and-pasted audio material creates a surreal sort of ‘exquisite corpse’ effect, not so much relating an explicit story as exposing an unconscious mood or psychic backdrop. In extreme cases, their own lyrical contribution is literally reduced to mere finger-snapping, as in “it never changes to stop...
Sadly this “Party Girl” section quickly ends and jumps to the “Body-Conscious Babe.” Mere coincidence or subtle insinuation? Who knows, but every college girl worth her tequila salt has been in the position of the real-life “party girl” who says “I drank too much fruit punch and vodka, forgetting there is a lag between when you drink it and when it hits you. I spent the night hurling in my bathroom and my friends have photos of me leaning...