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Certainly not all autograph seekers are innocents. A collector in England nearly kept sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner from a starting line last season. "I told him I would give him an autograph after the race," she said, "but he grabbed hold of me and wouldn't let go." Reggie Jackson often conducted debates of this kind with his public, including a beery brawl in Milwaukee that escalated when a shredded Jackson autograph got sprinkled on his french fries...
...title sketch, an ordinary couple become celebrities, in a way that seems chilling and entirely possible, when PEOPLE magazine, the morning babble shows and a congressional subcommittee hold their marriage up for universal inspection. If Kafka were writing this spooky stuff, you would call it Keilloresque, but it wouldn't be nearly so funny...
...country, finds Samoa considerably more alien than his last posting, in Beirut. "In Lebanon," he says, "there was at least some bridge with the West. But here you feel totally cut off. The culture is 3,000 years old and very complex and so different from ours that we wouldn't know how to begin to penetrate...
...Even the opposition Labor Party isn't proposing to renationalize all the companies that have been sold off to private shareholders or to take back the formerly state-owned houses that have been sold to their tenants. Even those put off by the glitz and the greed of Thatcherworld wouldn't really like to return to the gloomy, hangdog "British disease" atmosphere of the postwar period...
THIS edition of The Liberal Boutique is dedicated to Prof. Martin S. Feldstein, without whom this column wouldn't be nearly so much...