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...home sweet hell." It's Al Bundy of Married . . . With Children arriving at his doorstep, which in fact does resemble the gates to Dante's Inferno. Conversation in the Bundy family is a torrent of verbal abuse. "This is a home, not a restaurant," insists Al's wife Peg, after he demands his supper. "I know," he snaps. "If it was a restaurant, we'd have a clean bathroom...
...Register's editors, who expected a torrent of canceled ads and subscriptions, were surprised by Iowa's overwhelmingly favorable reaction. Even more calls of support poured in after a story about the series was front- paged by the New York Times last week. Geneva Overholser, the Register's editor, believes strongly that the American press should be franker in reporting sexual assaults. "We are participating in the stigma of rape by treating victims of this crime differently," says Overholser. "When we as a society refuse to talk openly about rape, I think we weaken our ability to deal with...
Residents of Alabama, Georgia and the Florida panhandle must have thought of Noah as up to 16 in. of rain poured down in 48 hours. In Elba, Ala. (pop. 4,355), the torrent breached the levee holding off the Pea River. No one was killed, but 3,000 had to evacuate the area. Elsewhere, bridges washed away, and caskets floated up from the rain-loosened soil of a Selma cemetery...
Even for an industry accustomed to constant attack, cigarette makers suffered a barrage of unusual intensity last week. The torrent of criticism suggested that the U.S. tobacco business will be severely hobbled in its attempts to introduce new brands and sustain its dwindling market...
SINCE the opening of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent torrent of change in the Eastern Bloc, experts have advanced scores of theories to explain the rise of freedom. Economists cite the inherent inefficiency of central planning, while the Right credits the Reagan military buildup with forcing Gorbachev to back down. The press, enamored of Gorbachev, credits his foresight and "vision" with Eastern Europe's new found freedom...