Word: polygamists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...program hosts who pay for airtime on radio station KZZI are an eclectic bunch: a self-proclaimed prophet and polygamist, a psychic and a weekly Iranian news and music show broadcast in Farsi. But many people were outraged by a program that premiered last month on the 10,000-watt radio station located some 15 miles southwest of Salt Lake City. The Aryan Nations Hour, whose host was White Supremacist Dwight McCarthy, is a Saturday-morning call- in show for bigots who believe a race war is inevitable...
Tama Janowitz's A Cannibal in Manhattan surely will rank at year's end as the singularly most annoying book of 1987. Janowitz somehow has failed to make an amusing tale out of the clever premise of a marriage between a purple-skinned polygamist and a rich Manhattan heiress. Her story of a reformed cannibal, Mgungu Yabba Mgungu, a native of the South Pacific island of New Burnt Norton, who visits New York City and finds a wife is pretentious, irritating and--worst of all--just plain boring to read...