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...kind they put out at skating rinks to keep blades from scratching the linoleum, but here they serve to keep barbells from crashing through the floor. Inside, everything is sweaty, and but for the air-conditioning it would be sweatier still. I knew Bob in grade school, said "hi" when we passed in the hall in high school. He was a funny, pleasant guy, not really smart, thin and wiry, not big enough for most sports, but tough. Mostly he liked to horse around. Not anymore. Now he lives in the gym, with twice-a-day workouts, long exhausting regimens...
Georgia-born Blake Clark, 35, now works the Comedy Store in Los Angeles, drawling through a nervy routine that may prove Americans are far enough away from Viet Nam to find it unexpectedly funny. "Hi," Clark begins, bunking into the lights. "I'm a veteran, went to Viet Nam. It's always hard to say that. People have these preconceived notions about...
...certainly true of the sensational "Scarsdale letter" of Jean Harris to Dr. Herman Tarnower. That letter, with its confluent currents of rhetorical cunning, heartbreak and hysteria, is a remarkable work of art. One cannot imagine Mrs. Harris dashing off a note that read: "Dear Hi. Miss you. Jean." Yet one can too easily see Tarnower writing back: "Dear Jean. Good to hear from you. Hi"-the absence of things in certain letters being more devastating than their presence in others. Nothing says more than a light, frisky note to a friend in despair...
Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin is out of his mind to criticize Tip O'Neill for lacking zeal hi fighting the Republicans on the budget. Even we card-carrying liberals know that taxes are too high and waste too great to avoid budget cuts...
Although Shales is often acerbic about what he sees on TV, he is not contemptuous of the medium. This distinguishes him from other tart-tongued TV critics -and redeems him hi the eyes of many industry honchos. "He wants TV to be better," says M.T.M. President Grant Tinker (Hill Street Blues, WKRP in Cincinnati). Explains Shales: "People who respect TV are the ones I respect. It's the ones who wipe their feet on it whom I probably write nasty things about...