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...PUBLIC TRUST is no doubt valuable for reintroducing the key issues facing public broadcasting today. But its solutions--obscured in page after page of tortured prose--tend to skirt the reality that advocating funding panaceas on a large scale will not change the political climate. To justify its proposals, the commission offers familiar attacks against commercial television, arguments which, though valid, do little towards establishing a workable proposal. No one should argue that public television in the United States should be put out of its misery. A practical solution might suggest concentrating on local efforts, reducing reliance on federal funds...
...rigged eccentric, is never ruffled by his odd progeny; but their mother, a dithered creature who soon fades out of the scene, is confounded. At the age of six, for example, Benedick inquires, "What's a prostitute?" Peregrine knows: "A lady with high heels and a tight satin skirt and dyed hair." Replies Benedick: "Oh, like the housemaids. Have you noticed the new parlormaid's bosom?" Their mother demands to know what they are jabbering about. "Ladies," says Peregrine. "They call them intercourse on the news bulletins." Mrs. Corbett retaliates by marching the boys to church, and there...
...entrance foyer, there is a prominent reminder that men should be "properly attired in necktie and jacket at all times," and women should limit their wardrobe to "dresses, pant suits or skirt suits...
...tank up with the cheaper and peppier leaded fuel, even though doing so ruins their catalytic converters and makes the cars bigger polluters than ever. The EPA fears that decontrolling prices will merely widen the gap between the cost of leaded and unleaded gas and encourage more drivers to skirt the law that requires unleaded in new cars. Says one DOE official about the panoply of contradictory regulations: "There is no doubt that we have really screwed things...
...plans to take over her store. The large central market seemed adequately stocked with fresh vegetables, soap, cigarettes, pots and pans, cotton cloth and even finely wrought silver works -all still being sold by private merchants. While virtually all women obey a government order to wear the traditional Lao skirt, called the sin, some top them with T shirts promoting ADIDAS or "U.C.L.A. BRUINS...