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...many say is history at its best, Shawcross doesn't like to look behind. He worries about what is going on in Cambodia now. He worries about British reporters who, bound and gagged by that country's Official Secrets Act, will never gain access to documents that Americans can poke into...
...discrimination, whereby women or minority groups are associated by the media with certain stereotypical characteristics. We find offensive recent films such as Cruising, which portrays homosexuals as abnormally violent, or television situation comedies which stereotype numerous segments of modern American society. Our characters do anything but that; rather, they poke fun at the stereotypes themselves by illustrating their complete absurdity...
Coach Malavasi survived, barely ("This is the roughest season I've ever been through"), and so did Mrs. Rosenbloom, despite the efforts of the Los Angeles press. The Times assigned two newsmen to poke into her past for a month and reported that she had been married five times before wedding the Rams' owner and that her first marriage had been annulled when she was 15½ years...
WHEN BRIAN McCUE QUIT as director of this show, consensus held it would sink. Enter Shipley Munson. Under the guidance of producer Mark Stone, he patched it up, and then steered it to satire, while avoiding hack. His predictable cynicism--"let's poke a little fun at it as we go along"--creeps in here, but on the whole the calisthenics amuse the youngsters without alienating their chaperones...
...would Contributor John Skow know about New Hampshire and its politics [Oct. 29], gazing at us natives from his lofty perch in snooty New London? Skow can poke fun at us. However, when the chips are down, name me one President in the past five decades who made it without first doing damn well in the New Hampshire primary...