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...problem. Such anecdotage, critics claim, tends to oversimplify and distort complex situations. But the device was turned against the Administration last week when CBS News used emotion-charged tales to make the case that some of the nation's truly needy are falling through the social safety net. "Hunger in America is back," said CBS Commentator Bill Moyers in his introduction to the hour-long report People Like Us. "In the great outcry about spending, some helpless people are getting hurt...
Circadian dysrhythmia, the medical name for jet lag, is a recognized disorder. Zooming through time zones upsets biological clocks and desynchronizes functions such as sleep, hunger, elimination and sex. The body resists its forcible relocation in the external world with numerous warning signals: sleepiness, insomnia, dimmed vision, throat discomfort and irritability. A pack-a-day smoker, Haig also would be affected by high altitudes more than the nonsmoker. Some studies indicate more disturbing effects of jet megatravel: a diminution in mental ability, and mild amnesia about recent events. The heart undergoes a special series of reactions during intercontinental travel. Levels...
...years ago, the auto industry might not be in such a sorry state. But in that industry, as Chrysler's chairman Lee la-cocca put it, "you make a decision and then wait three years to get the stuff kicked out of you." Congress has such a hunger to know coming trends that it requires the President to project budget deficits five years ahead-an exercise to whose futility Ronald Reagan recently attested. Said Reagan: "I have to be honest with you and tell you that while I have to project. . . I don't believe what...
THROUGHOUT Peoploids in Hunger City, the performers throw themselves into their work with enthusiasm no matter what ridiculous things they are requested to do. With straight faces, Debbie Wasser and Ashley Roundtree calmly strip down to silk negligee and fruit-of-the-looms as they sing the melancholy duet "Heroes." Later, Wasser submits to being beaten with a cord with equal aplomb...
...PERHAPS this is taking the show too seriously. Although the people for pcoploids) who perform in and wrote Peoploids in Hunger City seem to think they are saying something terribly meaningful, those of us who don't really know what's going on can enjoy it nonetheless. The singers have a gutsy, raw sound, especially Valerie Gilbert and the woman who calls herself--honest--Isopropyl Pavlova in the program. The band is energetic and terrific-- Noelani Rodriguez on bass, and John Arimond, Regina Arnold, and Morley Robertson on guitar. Robertson's bizarre contortions with his instrument are particularly...