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...America's leading humor columnists--to be amusing every minute of the day. And, to be fair, Buchwald can be uproariously funny when he wants to be. It's almost as though he can turn his comic talents on and off the way he does his omnipresent tape recorder--which he uses to capture everything he says so that later he can incorporate a humorous off-the-cuff remark into a future column...
Buchwald and tape recorder were "on" a week ago, when he kept a Kennedy School Forum audience chuckling for an hour by casting caustic, comedic comments at some of his favorite targets--the presidential candidates...
...tranquil as scientists from some 60 universities badger authorities for permission to enter the normally forbidden "red zone" around the foot of the mountain. Some of those denied access have accused the Forest Service and the U.S.G.S. of conspiring to corner data from the mountain, using bureaucratic red tape to keep out competing researchers. One regulation: each investigating team must have a radio operator, a function that is being performed by local hams. But now there are not enough to go around, and scientists must wait days to get one. Moans Portland State's Allen, head of the screening...
...polite, too squeamish, or maybe too lazy to examine the innards, to ask his subjects to puke their guts out so he can poke around in them a little. Studs Terkel used the McPhee occupation-centered approach in his voluminous book Working; though he stuck religiously to his tape recordings, he managed, with his questions and with the inflections of an interviewer who understands, to draw out far more of the pain and slight glory of the work-a-day world...
...back in Los Angeles, fixed up in an office on the old Hollywood General lot -- now known as Omni Zoetrope Studio and owned by Coppola. The walls in Waits' suite are made of old mahogany. A Yamaha grand piano fills half of one of the rooms. An elaborate tape deck shares a coffee table with magazines, cassettes and scripts. "There's a David Niven feel to the room which I rather enjoy," he says, his eyes scanning the rich wainscoting...