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What viewers certainly have not seen before is a news program as hypnotically visual as West 57th. Besides depending on swift-cut editing and dramatic close-ups, Lack has pared down correspondents' introductions and stuffed the sound tracks with voiceovers. The show's look and correspondents (all are under 40) have led some at CBS to dub the show Yupdoc (short for yuppie documentary). Though the slickness, so far at least, has not triumphed over the substance, the glossy style could blind some viewers to the journalism. On the other hand, the approach is sure to draw people who might...
...reaction from Greece's labor leaders was angry and swift, as protest marches and demonstrations erupted across the country. More than 20 unions called tens of thousands of workers out on a 24-hour strike, closing government offices, private industry, shops, schools, hospitals, banks and airports. The action even took taxis off the streets. It was the start of a series of work stoppages that continued through the week. Headlined Avgi, Athens' Eurocommunist daily: THE COUNTRY PARALYZED...
...visible in miniature bogs that were as treacherous as quicksand. Some exhausted survivors lay on the surface of the mud in shallows, or staggered along in shock on drier ground. Many of the living were naked or only partly clothed; their garments had been torn from them by the swift-moving lahar. All were encrusted with ash-colored goo that quickly hardened under the next morning's sun into a gritty carapace. Many of the survivors had suffered serious injuries. A sepulchral silence reigned over the devastated town...
...Behind them, as part of the upheaval produced by the 1982 invasion, they are leaving a Shi'ite guerrilla movement of undetermined strength. Last week the Israelis showered leaflets from a helicopter warning that attacks on Israel's northern settlements from across the border would bring swift retaliation. "Israel's long arm," said the message, "will reach every inciter and every terrorist. Think about your wife, children and parents." --By William E. Smith. Reported by John Borrell/Beirut
Mockler suggests the essentials of his characters in swift strokes. "I am not happy," Wingate confides to a subordinate. "But then, I have been thinking, no great man ever was really happy." And the author is an excellent guide through the winding complexities of Ethiopian culture, its ancient Coptic Christian religion and its legendary past (the first Emperor, Menelik I, was purported to be the son of the biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba...