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...sensational account from the usually staid Soviet news agency TASS last week read like a Western tabloid: six men had miraculously been found alive in Armenia, 35 long days after an earthquake hit the Soviet republic and killed at least 25,000 people...
...calls his Ministers "comrades"), his tactics street-fighter tough. When the U.S. Government, upset at Perkins' antinuclear policies, turns up the economic pressure, he thumbs his nose by going to the Soviet Union for a financial bailout. Gleefully making the announcement at a press conference, he even supplies the tabloid writers with their next morning's headline: PERKINS SAVED BY KREMLIN GOLD...
...social history. It takes its cue not so much from the buddy films as from Warner Bros. melodramas of the '30s, like Black Legion and They Won't Forget, which seized some social-issue headlines and fit them into brisk, dynamic fiction. % It is movie journalism: tabloid with a master touch. And the master, the suave manipulator, is Alan Parker. By avocation he is a caricaturist, and by vocation too. He chooses gross faces, grand subjects, base motives, all for immediate impact. The redneck conspirators are drawn as goofy genetic trash: there's not a three-digit...
Novelist Julian Barnes has described Potter as a "Christian socialist with a running edge of apocalyptic disgust." And Potter's works have provoked disgust in the more easily shockable segments of the British public. The tabloid press denounced the Detective series as pornography, and as Potter recalls, "one Member of Parliament got up on his hind legs and said that he'd counted the number of swear words and bare bums. But that's partly because television is taken more seriously in England, which means more seriously by the fools as well." One scene -- a flashback of a desperate encounter...
...enemy, and currently that is Rupert Murdoch. In their Hertz-Avis relationship, Murdoch is several long steps ahead. His News Group Newspapers, Ltd., is worth $13 billion, with a $6 billion debt, whereas Maxwell Communication Corp. runs at around $5 billion, with roughly $2 billion in debt. Murdoch's tabloid, the Sun, sells 4.2 million copies a day to 3.2 million for Maxwell's Daily Mirror. "What Murdoch has achieved is stupendous," concedes Maxwell, but he jabs at his foe for becoming a U.S. citizen so he could acquire American TV stations. "I chose Britain for better...