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...this man, in his urgent voice and eager eyes, in the message and the messenger, that overwhelms even those who are predisposed to distrust him? Long ago, Billy Graham gave up the shiny suits and technicolor ties of the brash young evangelist; the silver mane is thinner now, the step may falter a bit, he no longer prowls the stage like a lynx. In his preaching as well, the temperatures of hellfire have been reduced, the volume turned down. Graham knows he needs to save his strength: he is fighting Parkinson's disease, a progressive nervous disorder that has already...
...Middle East. 472 Mass Ave., Cambridge. 497-0576. Downstairs: Tar, Girls Against Boys, Thinner and The Lune on Friday, Oct. 8. Sonny Sharrock on Oct. 12. Upstairs: Big Hot Sun, Who's kiddin Who, Gypsy Cruise and Babboon Heart on Thursday, Oct. 7. Zuzu's Petals, Morning Glories and Quiver on Friday, Oct. 8. Dashboard Saviors, Kevin Salem on Saturday, Oct. 9. Small Ball Paul, Forty and Landfill on Oct. 10. Church of the Subgenius...
...bizarre stratagems men and women have cooked up to reduce weight without cutting back on food, this latest one takes the cake. It's a pill that makes you thinner not by suppressing appetite or speeding up metabolism but by preventing fat from entering the bloodstream (and the hips, the belly and the buttocks), one greasy molecule at a time. Liz Smith, the syndicated gossip columnist, calls it the new "dream drug." The Times of London, which should know better, pronounced it a "pain-free pill that allows us to stay slim for life while eating what we like...
...pitchers. Just ask Detroit Tigers manager Sparky Anderson, who went without a victory in 16 straight spring-training games because his pitching staff resembles that of the Bad News Bears. "Pitching's been thin for so long," he moans, "that I just don't think it can get any thinner. Already you're seeing the thinning of the thin...
...home entertainment. "There isn't an inexhaustible supply of talent out there waiting to fill 500 channels," warns Howard Stringer, CBS Broadcast Group president. "The first thing that comes to mind is what Alvin Toffler called the Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets...