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This troubled house harbored another writer, David Updike, now 25, who has had three stories published in The New Yorker. One, called Apples (1978), poignantly portrays the edginess of an absent father's weekend visits: "He always leaves suddenly, catching us with a bite of dessert left on our plates or a swig of coffee in our mouths, and my mother asking, invariably, why so soon. I sympathize with him, though, and would like to hug him knowing somehow that his sudden departure is not out of any eagerness to return to his apartment in the city...
...starring Jack Palance as a sort of host-narrator who guides the gullible down shadowy byways of history, folklore, sociology and pseudo science. Palance, who has the congeniality of Robert Louis Stevenson's body snatcher, goes in for twisted smiles of irony, as if he were trying to bite open a marble. He is the only presiding television host who actually seems to pronounce ellipses. When he says, "Witness the death rites of a Balinese prince in a fiery ceremony designed to release his soul for reincarnation," each dot of the ellipsis seems to detonate on the soundtrack like...
...three leviathans in a sizzle. Tempers flared when the Burger King Corp. of Miami, the nation's second largest fast-food restaurant chain (3,500 outlets, $2.3 billion in 1981 sales), launched a provocative $19 million network television ad blitz designed both to grab off a bite of the market from its larger archrival, McDonald's Corp. of Oak Brook, Ill. (1981 sales: $7.6 billion), and to steal a march on third-ranked Wendy's International Inc. of Dublin, Ohio (sales last year: $1.4 billion...
...believe me, it reads well in Peoria." Like most of Reagan's hand-carved one-liners (which is about all we get these days), this remark was ambiguously simple. It seems a criticism of two papers unpopular with right-wingers, but in Reagan fashion it was a bite without a sting. The remark could also be read, suggests David R. Gergen, the White House's director of communications, as implying that people in Peoria are more receptive to Reagan's message...
...little time on those who want to follow the fine print. Reagan obviously didn't invent the homely example: Remember how Roosevelt shrewdly argued for Lend-Lease to Britain, justifying it as lending a hose to a neighbor to put out a fire? Nor did Reagan invent the bite-size explanation of policy. Gergen, from his speechwriting days for Richard Nixon, remembers Nixon's insistence that press statements be less than 100 words long: "That way, Nixon said, he and not somebody else controlled how much of what he said got used." Gergen thinks of Nixon and Carter...