Word: teacups
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...Hong Kong, radio-show personalities face less overt intimidation, but their broadcast freedom is nevertheless being threatened. Albert Cheng, a bespectacled society icon and radio host, decided last month to take indefinite leave from his ultra-popular talk show, "Teacup in a Storm," after the Broadcast Authority warned his radio station, Commercial Radio, about his on-air conduct. (Wong Yuk-man's program is carried by the same station.) The warning comes at a sensitive time, when the issue of the station's license?due for renewal next year?is still being addressed. The controversy centered on two shows this...
...this detachment is recent, an effect of various elevations: the knighthood in 1990, the Nobel Prize for Literature last year. The truth is that he has spent much of his life enmeshed in current events, making a living as a freelancer and giving permanent form to subjects such as teacup tempests in Anguilla and Grenada. It's hard these days to imagine Naipaul following the Norman-Mailer-for-mayor campaign around New York City, but there was a time when he willingly did so. He sought such assignments because, as he was once fond of saying, he needed "to earn...
There's a difference too between this debate and the anguish millions of parents endure, and put their kids through, while trying to decide whether to live together or apart. Compared with that, a scholarly family feud may seem a mere tempest in a teacup...
...does a lively riff on the marathon coverage that followed John F. Kennedy Jr.'s fatal plane crash in the summer of 1999. After a while, though, all this mockery of the excesses of TV news begins to seem a fish-in-the-barrel (or a carp-in-the-teacup) sort of enterprise...
...glow, like space-heater coils. Eve does an on-air interview hyping her new CD, Scorpion (Ruff Ryders/Interscope), and then records a few attitude-filled promos. "Who's that girl?" Eve asks. "I'm that motherf_____ girl!" When the session concludes, Eve softens. Her dog, Spunky J., a teacup terrier so tiny it's more of a cat than a canine, scrambles into her arms. Eve coos, "She's like a baaaby...