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Broadcasters trace the development of such shows back to the appearance of NBC's persistently popular Real People, an hour of sometimes amusing interviews in the heartland. A recent show followed A. J. Weberman, a "celebrity garbageologist" who among other feats has retrieved memos from Richard Nixon's trash can and empty Valium bottles from Gloria Vanderbilt's. ("The best thing I ever found," he says, "was Jackie Kennedy's pantyhose.") While Real People, which gets more than a third of the audience in its Wednesday prime-time slot, spawned a series of other "entertainment news...
...reunion chatters about Ajax and other domestic topics. The talk throughout is startlingly apolitical--mostly gossip about who's sleeping with whom, who's breaking up with whom. They are afraid of the Trilateral Commission; they don't think too much of Jimmy Carter--nothing too deep, no trace, for example, of Marxism. When they are busted for killing a deer (they are innocent), each character recites a list of his/her previous arrests--in '70, '72--and it all sounds so far away, so remote from anything they're thinking or feeling now. The closing credits play over Polaroid snapshots...
...with the adoption of a Plan E government, the Irish were finally forced to share their power. Although they lost some of their control, their impact. remains. A significant number of Cantabrigins today still trace their roots to the Irish--and Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr. is Speaker of the House of Representatives...
...accidents. By this means, scientists have established some cause-and-effect links-for example, between prolonged inhalation of asbestos particles and mesothelioma (cancer of the lining of the chest or abdomen). But often the results of such epidemiological studies are not entirely convincing. The problem: scientists must trace effect back to probable cause ratherthan identifying cause and looking for effects. Says Dr. Irving Selikoff, of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Medical Center, who established the asbestos-cancer connection: "You're always working backward in this field...
...there anything more tedious than someone else's mid-life crisis? The answer, sadly, is yes. It is a movie about that familiar anguish made without a trace of humor, intelligence, originality or perspective. To put the matter more sim ply, Middle Age Crazy more than lives up to its blunt and witless title...