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This reductio ad absurdum of TV's talk-show mania has had funny sequences, like Jim Belushi joining in an inept neighborhood game of charades: while the women whiz through titles like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, the men are stumped by Jaws. But the Hollywood-meets-the-heartland satire falls a little flat. My Talk Show is too straitlaced and good-natured; it needs a bit of the rudeness of Late Night with David Letterman. Or at least some quirkier performers. Where have you gone, Louise Lasser...
...Their ranks are still swelling. In Maine alone this year, there were 1,500 parental applications to state authorities for permission to teach children at home, in contrast to four in 1981. "We have everything from Black Muslims to Jews and one woman who is a cross between a Zen Buddhist and Winnie the Pooh," says Michael Farris, president of the Virginia-based Home School Legal Defense Association, which tracks developments across the country...
What happened next, however, might be called Zen and the Art of Automobile Maintenance. Toyota had taken its sweeping action on the basis of just two consumer complaints, one about a defective brake light and the other concerning a sticky cruise-control mechanism. "The company didn't run and hide," recalls Meade. "They stepped right up" and made changes in all 8,000 cars. Lexus owners did not even suffer the inconvenience of a trip to their dealership: within a few weeks, their cars were picked up, repaired and returned to them. To serve 10 Lexus owners in Grand Rapids...
...woman with a nosering sits outside Au Bon Pain and lectures a shaggy homeless man: "I mean, if you look at it the way the yogis or the Zen Buddhists...
What distinguishes a champion in any sport is an unquenchable drive to meet goals set from within. For Lendl, the goal at Wimbledon seems not to be victory so much as Zen-like peace of mind about doing his best: "I did not want to look back and wonder, 'If I tried this or that . . .' " After years of his being an unpopular hero, that dogged determination is at last winning him fans -- and memories may follow...