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...weeks ago, a woman called the reader line at the Seattle Post- Intelligencer with the kind of complaint that overheated partisans make to nearly every news organization in nearly every election year. "The picture on page 4 of Vice President Quayle," she said, "shows his mouth screwed up, while beside him Candice Bergen as Murphy Brown looks very happy." The same thing happens, the woman added, whenever the paper runs photos of President Bush and Democratic challenger Bill Clinton, or for that matter other nominees of each party. "The Republicans are always frowning. The Democrats are always happy...
...worshipper of Holden Caulfield. Jane tells about, among others, her mother, who divorces Jane's father and takes up the violin, and her formerly promiscuous sister, who marries an Orthodox doctor and gives birth to a boy Jane jokingly calls "the Little Messiah." Except for eloquent moments, the reader longs for a little verve. Jane is a nice girl who should go to college, marry a nice boy and leave narrating no-hitters to another heroine...
WHEN TYLER JOHNSON'S MOTHER wakes up one morning to find the word divorce printed on her forehead in black felt pen, the reader can't help tingling with anticipation that more fun awaits. And for a while Douglas Coupland delivers, drawing delectable characters such as narrator Tyler with his Smithsonian- class collection of shampoos; his sister Daisy, a neohippie in blond dreadlocks; and his mother Jasmine, a twice-divorced hippie with the felt- penned forehead...
...health, were devoted to making smoking look healthy, sexy and fun? How about Rolling Stone? Any kids read that? It's been estimated that fully one-third of all U.S. hospital beds are devoted to tobacco-caused disease. Many magazines, including the nation's largest, Modern Maturity and the Reader's Digest, already reject tobacco...
...Weekly Reader, a paper that circulates to about eight million students through 10th grade, has its own poll for the disenfranchised minority. Bush took a 16 point advantage over Clinton, The New York Times reported, mostly on the strength of the kindergarten through fourth grade vote. Not since the Eisenhower Stevenson race have the youngsters failed to predict the winner. Since that was the first Weekly Reader poll, their record...