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...surprising that many of the curators see the collections as akin to libraries; things are collected that might never be used but are simply preserved for certain classical traits. Like many libraries, the Museum has a rare books collection...
Networks and advertisers, too, see home taping as something akin to a biblical curse. Argues AFL-CIO Executive Jack Golodner, who represents TV and film performers and technicians: "Take The Wizard of Oz, which is shown every year on television. If 40 to 50 million people have taped it, what sponsor would want to buy time on another broadcast?" But it is the fast-forward button that has advertisers most agitated, for with it, says Valenti, viewers can "assassinate" commercials while either taping programs or playing them back. Says Richard Kostyra, senior vice president at J. Walter Thompson, the mammoth...
Cruel irony it is indeed that in one of the most populist-minded states of the Union, a form of government akin to that of absolute monarchy has prevailed in its capital. James Madison, writing in the Federalist of 1787, warned of the dangers facing all large legislative assemblies, noting that "the greater the number composing them may be, the fewer will be the men who will in fact direct their proceedings." Madison went on to observe that in the earliest republics, a single orator or an artful statesman was generally seen to rule with as complete a sway...
Many of these changes, according to William A. Doebele, a GSD professor, are akin to "getting the bugs out of a space capsule." He explains that because the overall building design was so unorthodox--"the first of its kind constructed anywhere"--certain technical problems have arisen that have got steadily worse...
...find that the flag under which the Games will be conducted all over Southern California next summer is the vest from a three-piece suit. In the most remarkable private business deal in the history of free enterprise, patriotism is seeing nationalism, and raising the bet outrageously. "It is akin to patriotism," says Dan Greenwood, a committeeman in the Olympic company, "but a patriotism of businessmen." Commercialism is not a bad word either, though some may disagree...