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Remember all the fuss over a 1981-82 survey professing to show that the news is being distorted by a liberal journalistic elite that is out of touch with the rest of America? Conservative pressure groups with lots of money to spend spread these charges far and wide. Recent cover stories in two professional magazines challenge the accuracy of the findings. But what is stranger is that the accusations no longer seem to matter so much, and the reason is Ronald Reagan...
...bath), in which a woman immerses herself after her menstrual period, dental floss and cotton swabs are provided for removal of the tiniest particles so purifying water will wash the entire body. One evening, Harris undergoes the first ritual bath of her life, an experience that produces a momentary touch of Hasidic ecstasy as memories well up of her grandmother and the two sons Harris has borne...
...money to get Isaacson started in a 1,200-sq.-ft. studio that features $50,000 worth of equipment and, no less important, wall-to-wall mirrors for checking oneself out. But his star customers are not interested in a convivial health club. They want the personal touch, and they get it. If Mickey Rourke requests an after-midnight workout, Isaacson opens the gym. If Danny Sullivan asks him to fly to Indianapolis, he gets on a jet. If Travolta likes new sweats and shoes for every workout, Isaacson supplies them. "When they don't get what they want, they...
...story toward right reason." The book shows no sign of having been tossed off in half an afternoon. "I think it's a lot of twaddle that using a word processor affects the quality of writing for the worse," says the author, who claims a touch-typing speed of 110 words per minute on the computer keyboard...
...previously signed weapons contracts are protected from the Gramm-Rudman cuts, the burden will fall precisely where it will do the most harm to the military's readiness to fight: funds for operations, manpower, maintenance, training and supplies. Warns House Armed Services Committee Chairman Les Aspin, with perhaps a touch of hyperbole: "What you're seeing is a defense budget going down as fast as it went up, with double-digit negative growth in the future...