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...first image is a young boy on a Sunday morning. Sprawled on the living room floor, the boy pores over pages of newsprint. Numbers. Statistics. All the arcane lore contained in the sports section. It is a group ritual. The boy looks up occasionally to share a dramatically improved ERA with his father. The father, lolling on the couch with the Business section, responds with animation. "That reminds me of the 1955 Dodgers. What a season...
...appeared on various radio shows. But the plight of the opposition daily La Prensa raised questions about whether the Sandinistas intended to honor the Sapoa accord's call for "unrestricted freedom of expression." Last week the daily was unable to go to press because the government was squeezing its newsprint supply. The two pro-Sandinista newspapers were able to print more copies than they could sell...
...counting on the pact to give a boost to a country that at the moment has a modest surplus in world trade. From 1980 to 1984, Canada's exports surged from $67.7 billion to $90.3 billion, fueled largely by sales to the U.S. of such products as softwood lumber, newsprint, autos and trucks. By 1986, however, exports had slipped to $89.7 billion, partly as a result of a falloff in Canada's revenues from oil sales. Canada had an $11 billion trade surplus with the U.S. last year, but a $5 billion deficit with the rest of the world...
...husband with leaders of the revolution had disappeared. "I told him that, frankly, looking at you ((Sandinistas)) gave me a headache," she said. If all goes according to plan, the first edition of the reborn La Prensa will appear Oct. 1. The paper has enough Soviet-supplied newsprint left to publish 27 daily editions. "After that," says Chamorro, "who knows?" That same question could be asked about the Oct. 4 target date for talks between the combatants in both - Nicaragua and El Salvador -- and, for that matter, about the future of peace in Central America...
Most of the vignettes try to show how TV aims for the lowest common denominator, making its programming as shallow as possible. There are commercials for such products as Silly Pate, an hors d'oeurve that picks up newsprint, bounces off walls, and tastes good on crackers. An "In Search Of" type show called "Bullshit or Not?" proposes that jack the Ripper was really the Loch Ness monster in disguise. On a movie review show, the critics discuss in seriousness such films as "Frat Slobs" and the Swedish import "Winter of My Despondency...