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...morning over advancing Soviet troops." There is only calamity after that. ABC's determination to keep up appearances of political evenhandedness have helped the film makers conjure up what seems like a spookily accurate scenario for Armaged don: the beginnings of worldwide disaster as a series of barely overheard frag ments. This is global tragedy with no fixed responsibility...
...Reagan, the centrist drift of the Democratic Party, and the excitement generated by the showing of Blacks in major mayoral races make now the best time for this strategy. Reagan's policies have caused a new feeling of class consciousness among the working (and not working) classes: I overheard one Black teenager in a Fort Worth Dairy Queen ask another how it was going. The other replied, "Reaganomics...
Carver's art masquerades as accident, scraps of information that might have been overheard at the supermarket check-out counter or the local beer joint. His most memorable people live on the edge: of poverty, alcoholic self-destruction, loneliness. Something in their lives denies them a sense of community. They feel this lack intensely, yet are too wary of intimacy to touch other people, even with language. "What's to say?" wonders one man. Another, traveling to meet the son he has not seen in many years, dreads the moment of greeting: "He really didn't know...
Jody Powell, writing in the Dallas Times Herald, puts the blame for the rise of onion fraud partly on the Carter Administration: "It started in 1977 when we Georgians descended on Washington and were overheard whispering at embassy receptions, state dinners and Cabinet meetings about suppliers, shipments and prospects for the year's crop. This attracted the attention of gossip columnists and other riffraff. Soon Vidalias were appearing on the shelves of the Georgetown Safeway, the supermarket of the elite where you're embarrassed to shop if you're not wearing tennis togs or jodhpurs, depending...
Students have become so used to their comfortable relations with university officials that they sometimes go out of their way to accommodate their wishes. When alumnus John D. Rockefeller Jr. visited the campus and overheard students calling the social sciences and humanities library named after him "the Rock," he expressed his displeasure to the administration...