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...this month's [MORE] that achieves what the magazine proposes to do: systematically criticize the media. There's this conspiracy, you see; the role of television in our society, according to John Leonard, The New York Times' roving cultural correspondent, is to "purvey legitimizing ceremonies." His wonderfully acerbic rundown of T.V.'s convention coverage ends thusly...
...Agnes has found a job there, operating a grinding and shaving machine. "My trouble is not to find a job," says Koco. "My trouble is to find enough time to sleep with all the jobs I can get." The Kocos live in a house that they bought in rundown condition for $5,000 and are now fixing. Koco has installed new plumbing, paneling, siding and decorative brick. On one wall hangs a pair of Texas longhorns. They have also bought an old boat in which they go to catch smelts on Lake Saint Clair. They have just finished paying...
...inspired the 1974 movie Badlands, began in January 1958, in Lincoln, Neb. For no apparent reason, the 19-year-old bandy-legged high school dropout shot to death Caril's mother and stepfather and clubbed to death her two-year-old half sister in the family's rundown frame house. The two teen-agers quickly went from killing to killing, all without motive. The victims: a 70-year-old bachelor farmer, a teen-age couple, a well-to-do industrialist, his wife and his maid, and a traveling salesman. The epidemic of shootings turned Lincoln into a horrified...
Craig and a pal from the country club get themselves mixed up in a real estate deal with a trio of bad-ass good ole boys who want to buy up a block of downtown property and build a highrise. Craig's job is to purchase a rundown hangout for body building called the Olympic Spa. The boys should have known better. Craig gets sucked into the strange rituals of the place, the exercises, the competition and-most of all -the mystical subculture of pumping iron. He makes friends with Joe Santo (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, himself a former...
...members and sometimes only in an occasional phone conversation, memo or quick chat. Nonetheless, their views of the issues-and of the candidates-provide a preview of the fall debate and possibly even some intriguing hints of the economic tone, mood and direction of the next Administration. A brief rundown on the ideas of the leading candidates and the men behind them, starting with the Democrats...