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...Earth constricts. We imagine ourselves to be prisoners in solitary confinement, tapping crude coded messages on the dungeon wall and hoping for an answering tap--without which we stare at the queasy possibility that we are truly, absolutely alone. Such an abyss 1) may be infinitely more depressing than the assumption of human inferiority or 2) may argue, conversely, for the divine uniqueness and therefore preciousness of the human enterprise. An agnostic will split the difference and think of Voltaire: "Remember your dignity...
History repeating itself as farce? We should be so lucky. If the 27-year-old Hasselbach's autobiography, Fuhrer-Ex (Random House; 384 pages; $24), demonstrates anything, it is that Germany's small but venomous neo-Nazi movement, along with supporters in Austria and the U.S., can tap the same depths of irrationality that possessed Central Europe 60 years ago. Past and present reminders of that madness now reach us with context-blurring frequency. Contemporary television images of skinheads tattooed with swastikas and the firebombed houses of Germany's Turkish immigrants regularly cross paths with rerun footage of Brownshirts rampaging...
Both Paul and Carol have full-time jobs. She works for a large book manufacturer, supervising a team of compositors, who tap copy into computers. As it happens, her dad once did that job, which then required casting hot lead. It was considered "men's work." As was common at that time, it paid a high union wage, and Carol's mother never worked. Today there are mainly women at the consoles, and they aren't unionized. (In fact, only 11% of private workers are, down from 28% in 1970.) Carol loves what she does, and her boss just told...
Money and message are fueling Forbes' rise from obscurity. Forbes will tap his own wallet for at least $25 million, and by refusing federal matching funds, he can spend it as he wants. This means that in New Hampshire and Iowa (with spending ceilings of $600,000 and $1.1 million, respectively), Forbes will probably outspend his rivals 2 to 1. Overall, he will soon report expenditures of about $15 million. That's less than Dole and Phil Gramm (about $20 million each), but both have spent so heavily on overhead that Forbes has been free to dominate the airwaves...
...ESPN SPORTS CENTER Taken together, these 15 TV spots promoting the sports-news show function as a mock documentary, offering a hilarious behind-the-scenes look at Sports Center. Fittingly, Spinal Tap's David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) appears in two of the ads as the composer of the program's theme music...