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...battle lines are riddled with ironies. Pro-lifers, usually from law-and- order backgrounds, rage against police brutality (of which there has been little so far). Pro-choicers, including avowed lefties, complain that the police are going easy on the opposition. Both sides have formed local subgroups of Republicans, Democrats and religious leaders to endorse their cause...
...Gipperphobes will be pleased to hear Ron bad-mouth the policies of the Reagan Administration. He treads the tightrope in Jimmy Stewart style, his aw- shucks ingenuity tempered with wry skepticism. The kid needs both in this R-rated melange of volatile guests (discussing steroids, Fundamentalism, rap music, gay rage) and a rowdy, het-up audience. The result is part encounter group, part bear baiting. And Ron seems willing to play, not omniscient emcee, but human sacrifice. "I used to be able to control this show," he quipped after both he and his wife had been called...
...narrative -- especially in the distant fate foretold for the team in the novel's final paragraphs. Despite the deep optimism inherent in depicting their relationship, McClure ends in glints of gloom. He implies that no such bond can survive forever the fire storm of that nation's rage...
...Washington, the U.S. Justice Department adamantly disputed evidence that it had failed to follow through on reports from undercover agents that B.C.C.I. had engaged in corrupt banking practices. In London, British Prime Minister John Major, pale and rigid with rage, told Parliament he knew nothing of rampant fraud at B.C.C.I. until shortly before July 5, when regulators closed the $20 billion rogue bank in most of the 69 countries where it operated. In Peru the scandal breathed new life into charges that former President Alan Garcia Perez had used B.C.C.I. accounts to loot as much as $50 million from...
...Federal Government's latest tables for "healthy" weights, issued last year, provide more leeway than earlier charts. The new standards allow for a range of 30 lbs. or more at each height and up to a 16-lb. gain after age 35. Meanwhile the American rage for dieting has diminished...