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Make no mistake, not even the most credulous couch potato believes that, say, 16-year-old Doogie Howser, M.D., is for real. But the easy affluence that is the birthright of Doogie's family might seem representative enough, especially when on the following ABC show (The Marshall Chronicles) the TV father was dressed in a tuxedo for an evening of Manhattan night life. Despite the pseudo-lower-middle- class realism of Roseanne and Married with Children, the implicit message in much of prime time remains almost effortless economic entitlement. For while most of the nation resides in what bicoastal types...
IOWA is not the potato state...
...nation's most restrictive abortion law. Passed two weeks ago by the Idaho senate, the bill would have outlawed virtually all abortions. Pro-choice groups threatened to boycott Idaho potatoes if the bill became law. The Washington headquarters of the National Organization for Women received spuds inscribed by pro-lifers: "Please take care of me. I am an aborted Idaho potato...
...paintings under the best conditions for resale or ransom, last week's pair were bunglers. They cut some canvases off their support stretchers, a hasty amateur act that enables the painting to be rolled up but severely damages it by cropping and cracks the old dry paint like a potato crisp when it is rolled, thus causing big problems of restoration. (When another Vermeer, The Letter, was stolen in Brussels in 1971, the thief not only rolled it up but sat on it in the back of a taxi, ruining...
That political caution was a major reason for the tankless Reforger maneuvers. "We have always been reluctant to run over people's potato patches, and we have always tried to be polite," says Saint, the U.S. Army commander. "But they don't design 60-ton tanks to be polite...