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Radio Host Howard Stern [SHOW BUSINESS, July 9] is not a "belligerent broadcaster" like the others mentioned in your article who inflame their listeners and prey on their fears. Instead, Stern makes light of personal and cultural differences through his humor. Audiences laugh not at the individual caller but at Stern's comedic madness, which mocks the bigots who thrive on fear...
...bounces, it soars, it never comes to ground. What it misses, though, is the play's darker dimension, Shakespeare's grim message that love and honor are for ever prey to rumor and malice...
...compassionate side, came off in the end as nothing more than the whines of entertainment industry pros who aren't used to dealing with real reporters, rather than flaks, who should have shut up when Woodward knocked on their doors. The point here is that Woodward approached his prey with the careful, methodical reporting with which he approached his more traditional, acceptable Washington targets--from the Nixon Administration to the Supreme Court. Just as All the President's Men or The Breinren offered a window on tablesus, broader than the subject at hand, Woodward uses Belushi as a lever...
...real fear grips the Democrats. "Mondale's chances are uphill," concedes Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Dave Nagle. Hart partisans give Mondale no chance at all. "Politics has a certain ecology to it," says Hart Adviser Frank Mankiewicz. "Walter Mondale appears to be Ronald Reagan's natural prey...
...days later, the rebels struck again with a textbook ambush (above and right). They boxed in a Soviet convoy by firing rocket-propelled antitank grenades in front of the enemy vehicles and behind them. Then, from their mountain hideouts, they rained heavy machine-gun fire down upon their stranded prey. Forty Soviet vehicles went up in flames, and pillars of thick black smoke billowed hundreds offset into...