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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company's net profits, some face increasingly aggressive rivals. Hearst's Harper's Bazaar, the tony fashion journal that has run second to Conde Nast's Vogue, is now being challenged by the frisky, well-designed Elle, an American cousin of the French original. House Beautiful is losing ad pages to its onetime equal, House & Garden, which has gone upscale by offering lavish picture spreads and admiring articles by well-known writers about the residences of the rich and well furnished...
...Hearst newspapers and one of the founder's two surviving sons, contributes a weekly conservative diatribe to the company's papers, but his involvement is otherwise sporadic; he has been known to phone editors late in the evening to complain about an editorial cartoon or the placement of an ad. What makes the relatively minor role of the Hearstlings in running the shop so intriguing is that they own the store. The family trust holds 100% of the stock, and dividends are distributed only to relatives. Yet only five of the trust's 13 directors are family members, and only...
...state has launched its own ad rebuttal. One 30-second protax television spot opens with a scene of a crowded sidewalk, while a voice-over intones that "growth is choking Florida. Too many people. Not enough water, roads, schools." The ad concludes that "special interests will have to pay their fair share...
Yale Law Professor Geoffrey Hazard, who was amember of Bok's ad hoc committee, said thatpresidential intervention "was uncommon" butlaudable...
...them try to kill each other. The format of their show is simple. For each film (four are reviewed in a typical half-hour, plus an extra segment on videocassette releases), one of the pair will introduce clips, describe the plot and give a capsule review. Then comes an ad-lib passage in which the other offers his comments or rebuttal. The cross talk often gets testy. After the two disagreed about Susan Seidelman's comedy Making Mr. Right, Ebert concluded defiantly, "I enjoyed myself from beginning to end." Replied Siskel: "You usually do enjoy yourself; it's the film...