A Nose for News: The Anchorman and the Bridge Tender What’s TV news supposed to do, anyway? Channel Five’s behavior was exemplary the other night. They’d sniffed out — literally — a story that no one else had, stood a vigil through the dark of night, and eventually got their man. So why are we […]
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A Name We Can Trust; Picks of ’86: The Baseball Accuracy Test
A Name We Can Trust We have been following the Sun-Times’s search for a new Miss Lonelyhearts, and the other day we thought we met the one. Her name was Emily True, and as soon as we heard it we wanted to pour our heart out. “Dear Miss True, all is confusion and turmoil. Please […]
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Sending Up the Sheppenwolves; The Many Moods of Eddie V.; Page Back to Boston?
Sending Up the Sheppenwolves Mark Nutter explained the meaning of Friends of the Zoo: “It means absolutely nothing at all. No affiliation with any zoo.” We were in the Victory Gardens Theater watching these masters of foolery rehearse their fifth production, Naked Zoo, which opens today in previews. It’s a parody on the works of […]
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Lighten Up, Harold; Lotto Bunk
Lighten Up, Harold Memo to the mayor. Call 573-8700. What we hear from the campaign trail is that Harold Washington isn’t letting up for a minute. Crowds galvanize him. While his enemies bury each other in lime, the mayor rolls on. in that inimitable way of his — a whiz at both progressive government and […]
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George Flynn Is a Punk Rocker; Different Drummond
George Flynn Is a Punk Rocker George Flynn, chairman of the Department of Musicianship Studies at DePaul University’s School of Music, holding the rank of professor, was born about 30 years too soon to be a punk rocker. And he was born in the wrong place. Flynn was born, in 1937, in Miles City, Montana, […]