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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Crane too was frustrated by the cycle of inattention. He blames the "liberal inclination" of the press, and he proposes that candidates who appear on television interview shows be forced to assign "a dollar value" to those appearances, which would count against total spending limits...
...editors, writers and correspondents who contributed to this week's story, only a few confessed to back problems. Medicine Writer Anastasia Toufexis, who wrote the story, and Adrianne Jucius, the reporter-researcher who assisted her, approached the subject with pain-free objectivity. All of those involved, whether they count themselves among the afflicted or not, gained useful insights into the physiology-and the psychology-of aching backs...
...stand up to the regime in the name of Christian justice. As one priest says, "The government calls a bishop a Communist, but when we see people being exploited, we have to say this is contrary to the Gospel." The toll has been high -since 1968, by church count, 122 bishops, priests and seminarians and 273 lay pastoral workers imprisoned or detained, and 84 people physically or psychologically abused. Despite the harassment, the progressive National Conference of Brazilian Bishops has become the most severe critic of the government. The church's task now, explains Paulo Evaristo Cardinal Arns...
...Nearing 40, with a mother dying of cancer and a marriage "childless and knee-deep in ruin," Bill Barich attempted an "escape into orderliness." He was to find an idea of order at New York and California race tracks, where winners and losers are clearly labeled and bloodlines still count. If Laughing in the Hills were only about horses, it could still be entered as best of breed, for Barich often seems to enter the souls of touts, breeders and even the animals themselves. But the book is far more. Like its predecessors, A Fan's Notes...
...dozen or so dark-skinned natives who appear only once, for about 40 seconds. Despite living on the same island for a dozen years, the two groups have managed to avoid each other. Determined to make their screen time count, the natives bob and weave around a campfire like so many loinclothed Travoltas and then sacrifice one their number to a hook-nosed Easter Island statue...