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...news show) featured player: a live studio audience. Both Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow and the revamped West 57th will feature dramatized "re-creations" of events, a dubious enterprise that blurs the line between news and entertainment. (Even ABC's World News Tonight tried the technique two weeks ago, with mock-documentary footage ostensibly showing suspected spy Felix Bloch handing a briefcase to a Soviet agent. Anchor Peter Jennings last week apologized on the air that the footage had not been clearly labeled as a simulation...
...deforestation of vast tracts in Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea. Last April the Japan Tropical Forest Action Network, a small but feisty environmental group based in Tokyo, presented the giant Marubeni Corp., one of the world's largest importers of tropical hardwoods, with a mock award: a cardboard chain saw for winning the Grand Prix for Tropical Forest Destruction...
...unfolded, it made for some odd conversations among staffers in the San Francisco bureau, where Nash is currently based. Office manager Olivia Stewart found herself fielding enigmatic tips about solar activity. Many came from Patrick McIntosh, a solar physicist in Boulder. As Nash tells it, "Olivia would say with mock concern that 'Pat McIntosh called again to say the sun was acting kind of strange.' Then she would burst out laughing." Last week, as the story was going to press, the sun graciously cooperated by ejecting a huge arch of gas that some astronomers pronounced the largest explosion they have...
...tourists gawk. A car pulls to the curb and a woman shouts, "I see you're still throwing up bricks!" a reference to a game of hoops he played with Jesse Jackson for the TV cameras. He grins, turns back toward the car, bends his knees and launches a mock jumper. The form is bad, the follow-through is strained, but his fans cackle with glee...
...sauce of endives, smoked pancetta and double cream fills the wood-beamed Venetian kitchen with its aroma. Bits of baby lamb are soaking up the flavor of juniper berries and white wine. Strings of homemade tonnarelli are drying nearby. Standing over her restaurant-size range, Marcella Hazan looks with mock astonishment at six blushing students. "You don't cook? What do you do? Starve?" It is her standard line when Americans complain that they don't have time to prepare real meals. "I despair," she says, waving a sauce-laden wooden spoon...