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...favor of North. "Keep your chin up," said one; "Good luck against those ill-bred hyenas," said another. North has personally received some 15,000 telegrams of encouragement. All the while, Ollie-entrepreneurs were trying to capitalize on the fascination. At a Young Republicans' convention in Seattle, Joel Shelton sold out his 20 $4 Oliver North buttons (LT. COL. OLIVER NORTH -- ANAMERICAN HERO -- DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY) in an hour. "And when I ran out of them," he says, "people seemed kind of angry that there weren't more." A Washington rock-'n'-roll band released a song to the tune...
...Clive Davis was ready for Whitney. Earlier, he had helped launch the careers of Janis Joplin, Barry Manilow and Billy Joel. Now he would steer Whitney Houston to middle-of-the-road music. Gerry Griffith, then Arista's A.- and-R. chief, had recommended Whitney to Davis and set up an audition. "Clive sat there poker-faced," recalls Flics. "He said thank you and left. The next day we got an enthusiastic offer." In 1983 Arista signed her, with a "key man" clause: if Davis leaves the company, Whitney can go with...
...truth about the young man emerges slowly and is hefty with mythological implication. Joel was a gifted student pilot who, like Icarus, got too cocky. In the Dickey version, the cadet flies too close to a raging brush fire and loses control of his plane in the hot turbulence. A farmer pulls him from the wreckage, but while he goes to get help Joel disappears, leaving only his broken goggles and a piece of zipper torn from his boot...
...novel's highly charged atmosphere turns these scrap items into relics. Blind Cahill literally feels his way to the truth about his son. Joel's former instructor breaks regulations and takes him for a dangerous spin that conveys the elemental and unnatural sensation of flight. Cahill also discovers that the lost flyer was the leader of a trainee cult known as Alnilam, named after the central star in the constellation Orion, the hunter. Eventually Joel is revealed as an incipient fascist, a "cool-headed demon," an arrogant manipulator of symbols and, reminiscent of the pseudoscientific romanticism of Nazi Germany...
...jockeys) will have left or been let go. Their replacements are a younger corps that includes Britisher Julie Brown, 27, and Dweezil Zappa, 17, son of Veteran Rocker Frank Zappa. A few years ago MTV tried to broaden its appeal by adding the mellower sounds of Lionel Richie, Billy Joel and others; now it has returned to its original emphasis on hard rock and heavy-metal bands, with softer ballads largely relegated to its sister service, VH-1 (available in 20.8 million homes). The channel's format has been diversified with more live programming, sitcoms (reruns of The Monkees...