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...first three miles of the five-mile course, the Crimson stayed with the awesome Princeton pack, but as the Tigers accelerated, the Harvard harriers faded. Princeton's lead man finished over a minute ahead of Peter Jelly, the Crimson's top finisher, in a course record time...
Take, for example, my favorite article in the parody, a feature on the people of Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, whose children have been turned into household appliances by radiation. The tone is perfect--genuine concern for the tragic victims, yet with a sense that everything will turn out all right in the end. The relentless good cheer comes through mostly in the writing. Snappy puns and appealing alliteration make everything seem a little less gloomy. To wit: "Some people, however, are wearing their nuclear designer genes with a smile...(or)...the problem has the Middletown populace as irritated as they...
...captions. The design and photography--by Mel J. Horan and Nevin I. Shalit respectively-- make a big difference in the parody's professional look. The pictures reflect the writing style exactly--clear and non-judgmental, with no attempts at high art or even real insight. Particularly in the Three Mile Island article and a funny (if too-long) feature on a boxing nun, the camera's sympathetic eye gives the pieces an uncanny People feel...
...Crimson side that opened the second half regained the form of the match's opening minutes. But there were two differences: the 20-mile-per-hour wind was now in the booters' faces, and this time, after 14 minutes, they scored...
...model of British politics, the Social Democratic Party chartered a special train (promptly dubbed the "Flying Moderate" by some, the "Smoked Salmon Special" by others) for its first conference last week and took its show on the road for a rollicking six-day, three-city, thousand-mile extravaganza. The tour ingeniously gave each of the party's four leaders, Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams, William Rodgers and David Owen, who are all former Labor Cabinet ministers, a chance to have a turn in the spotlight...