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Even on radio, where the most common four-letter vulgarisms are verboten, a host of popular "shock jocks" consider giving offense is Job One. Their humor is guy talk, kid division. The victims of their gags are familiar from the schoolyard: racial and sexual minorities, scheming females, body parts and bodily functions. A few years back, a D.C. radio host was censured for observing, on Martin Luther King Day, that "killing four more" would get + Americans the rest of the week...
...Cambodian crossroads town, and TIME correspondent Stanley W. Cloud went in to report the story. But within moments after a helicopter dropped Cloud and his photographer to the ground, they realized that the bullets were still flying. The pilot panicked and flew off, leaving the journalists in a schoolyard for two days while U.S. fighter-bombers "wasted" the area with napalm and explosives...
...time I was in junior high, I had calmed down a bit. I no longer came home from baseball games hoarse from the incessant bench chatter that would inevitably get me beaten up in the schoolyard the next day. I no longer spat on my palm for the postgame handshakes...
...frank as Gromyko's is dour, bounces from biographical anecdotes to a diary of % his successful 1989 election campaign for the new Soviet legislature. The former volleyball star, who despite touches of buffoonery has become a cult hero among Soviet rebels with a cause, struts his arrogance from the schoolyard to Red Square...
...year after the schoolyard massacre in Stockton, Calif., gave gun control a new impetus, the N.R.A. looks for a way to maintain its clout. -- TIME poll describes a nation where many share a devotion to guns -- and a willingness to accept regulations. -- For and Against: leaders of the N.R.A. and Handgun Control speak about firearms. -- Washington Mayor Marion Barry may finally have run out of luck. -- The McMartin sex case abused children, defendants, judge and jurors for six exhausting years...