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...comparison, General Electric seems to be concerned not with how much is spent but with what is watched. Thirteen top-of-the-line 1983 GE televisions will include a home censor for parental use. Just punching in a private code and a channel number will keep Junior from leching after Morgan Fairchild. It will, in fact, keep the entire channel off the set for twelve hours. If Junior learns the code, however, he can retaliate by wiping out, say, Little House on the Prairie. This may introduce a whole new version of family feud...
...rest of us watch in horror and fascination. As thirteen talented cast members sing and dance their way through a montage of Bowie hits, acting out strange scenes of violence and alienation while crooning into mikes about being "heroes for just one day," we realize that what we're seeing is not so much a theatrical event as a kind of elaborate private worship...
...college and became a successful writer. These facts are not part of Bronx Primitive. It ends with Kate, a budding beauty, ready to take on the male animal in her first form-fitted dress. "Lolita," she says, "was born decades later, yet [she was] a twin of the thirteen-and-a-half-year-old striding through Crotona Park, passing the spiky red flowers toward a kingdom of mesmerized men." The reference to Nabokov's lollipop avenger is especially suggestive because Simon's book is reminiscent of the Russian master's own recollections of childhood, Speak, Memory. Both...
...Daniel James outlines further this "Media Crusade to Sink EI Salvador," by examining recent articles from the Postand theNew York Times.Of 23 Timesarticles on the subject, James finds that "10 are perceptibly pro-guerilla and only seven pro-U.S....." Thirteen stories of the former variety and five of the latter comprise the Post's coverage of El Salvador. Articles such as these or William Rusher's commentary on "America's zealously anti-Reagan major media" are not uncommon in recent editions of the magazine...
...referred to this year as the best season in Harvard wrestling history, "an exceptionally satisfying year." Lee certainly has had to wait a long time to put together a team at Harvard that could compete at anything higher than a small school level serving as an assistant coach for thirteen years before becoming head coach...