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...point Sheehy pauses to ask, "Are we getting all worked up over something that is, in fact, quite normal and has been experienced since time immemorial?" Well, yes -- Japanese women, for example, don't even have a word for "hot flash" -- but never mind. Menopause is a swamp of pathology, in Sheehy's view, curable with a positive attitude and, in appropriate cases, a lifetime supply of Premarin...
SATIRE ON TELEVISION, CONTRARY to George S. Kaufman's famous dictum, is what opens on Saturday night. After a week of slogging through the sitcom swamp, by the weekend TV seems increasingly ready to kick back, relax and make snide fun of itself. Saturday Night Live is still flourishing after 17 years on the air, while In Living Color is a highly rated fixture on Fox's Sunday-night schedule. Two more sketch-comedy shows have, with little fanfare, sneaked onto the Fox schedule this fall. One, The Edge, is a fitfully amusing but rather juvenile SNL knock-off that...
...strange arithmetic of apocalypse, aids will not serve as an ultimate check on over-population. According to World Bank projections, sub-Saharan Africa's population will rise from 548 million today to 2.9 billion by the year 2050. The huge increase in mouths to be fed threatens to swamp any foreseeable economic growth and force living standards ever downward...
Despite 30 years of failure in Africa, many of the social ties still exist. How long they can endure is another question. "There is a mood of Afro- pessimism," says Serageldin. "It is sustained by press images of famine and slaughter that tend to swamp the positive achievements...
Serious Fun In the Swamp...