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...show begins in a straightforward satiric vein, using the vehicle of a "Miss or Mr. American Talent" pageant to mock American commercialism and the competitive ethic. When the slimy, selfindulgent M.C. introduces the six stereotypical contestants, all familiarly insipid, we remain anchored in the comfortable world of parody. With the song "An Atypical American Family," however, parody is replaced by a rude inversion of values; to the music of "Mame," a brother who pulls wings off flies and a sister who carries a onearmed doll confess their mutual hatred in starkly unfunny terms. A similarly violent mood underlies "The Hard...
...companies extract half of the coal by surface mining, using gigantic 20-story shovels that can crunch 120 cu. yds. of earth in one bite, exposing the coal veins for an army of other machines to attack. Mechanization has come to underground mines, too. In the big ones, miners no longer loosen the coal with explosives and pry it from the seam with pickaxes; they work continuous mining machines that cost $200,000 apiece and look like a cross between a chain saw and a lobster. The machines nose up to the coal vein and rip out ten tons...
...JANS: THE EYES OF AN ONLY CHILD (Columbia; $6.98). In the preholiday avalanche of LPs by major music acts, this attractive album might be overlooked. Using the standard country music themes of loneliness, moving around and adultery, Jans writes in the restless, romantic vein of a young man. Out of Hand, his tale of a hard-lovin' man who meets his match, unfolds against twanging guitars and the gentle percussion of a rural roadhouse band...
...change often comes about in affirmative action is through pressure, and Leonard will keep applying it, subtly, while the new task force works in a more public and demonstrative vein...
...lower than normal rate of output right after surgery." The Stanford group also routinely performs heart biopsies after surgery, looking for any clinical clue that the body's immune system may be rejecting the new heart. By slipping a biopsy catheter into the right ventricle via the jugular vein, doctors snip a piece of tissue, then compare it with a sample taken at the time of the original operation. If the biopsied tissue shows inflammation-a sign of rejection-the doctors temporarily increase the dosage of drugs that suppress the immune system after transplant surgery...