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animal sacrifice a major current issue?" WHDH's competitors expect Ansin to challenge the conventional wisdom that politics fascinates Bostonians. "There's definitely an audience that doesn't care much about the budget," says WBZ-TV news director Jeff Bartlett, who came from Miami's NBC station. "The question is, how far do you go the other way? WRITING WORKSHOP Continued from Page 15 rulers in my house," says Diane, who has three daughters. "I won't do it to mine. I get my frustration out on paper.

The pain gets gone; it goes on paper." She has a strong, wide face Diane is part French Canadian, part Native American. When Pat asks again if she'll read the published work, Diane mutters, "I don't like that poem," but she agrees to let Pat read it for her. This is from "Passed Not everyone who ignores the Legislature wants crime and grime." Because Channels 4 and 5 are so traditional in content and graphics, even a pale imitation of the Miami style will differentiate Channel 7 and attract new viewers at the price, perhaps, of alienating the station's existing audience. But if a slight touch of tabloid improves its ratings, Channels 4 and 5 will My mother did as her mother did It was passed down from her heritage. She knew that it was wrong.

So she put it in a song She hummed it as she went along. She had to use a belt, To show me how much love she felt. Since the workshop began, Diane has studied for her high school equivalency diploma. She hasn't gotten it yet, but every time she takes the test (13 times now), her scores go up a notch. "She's a lioness," says workshop surely follow, pushing 7 further into fear-and-leer television.

"If it turns out they create a big new niche," says WBZ's Bartlett, "there'll be pressure on us and WCVB to move that way." Make no mistake: If cosmetic change isn't enough, Ansin will try major surgery. As Ron Ansin says, "My brother is not one to have a station in third place indefinitely." member Evelyn Fitzpatrick. Not long after Pat recites Diane's poem, Corinna Spenard starts to read a piece. It's about sexual abuse, and Corinna is having trouble getting through it. Diane leans over, takes Corinna's paper in hand, and finishes reading it aloud.

She reads haltingly, sometimes squinting to make out Corinna's handwriting. "Reading for Corinna," Pat says later. that was cataclysmic. Diane would never have done that even a year ago. When she first started, she told me: 'I ain't Continued on Page 34 The Harmony of Simple Elegance We bahdoraft furniture using the finest hardwoods, time proven joinery techniques, beautiful bandrubbed finishes in tune with careful design.

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