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...AFTERNOON THAT MEDIA BARON RUPERT MURDOCH paid his visit to the Speaker-to-be, Newt Gingrich's one-room Capitol office was in chaos. Extra telephone lines were being installed, and aides were camping out on a floor littered with phone messages. Gingrich, arriving late, waved his hand at the mess and invited Murdoch and two of his lobbyists to an ornate reception room down the hall. There, as caterers set up for a Democratic dinner, the two sat on a bench and talked for 10 to 15 minutes. Their chat was mostly about the election that had swept...
...evening's tour de force is Act II of Tosca, with a lavishly bejeweled Galupe-Borszkh in the title role and the Hungarian baritone "Fodor Szedan" as her nemesis, Baron Scarpia. A much- brandished leg joint of a roast pig, a servant with an infectious body twitch and the wicked baron's narcolepsy (which becomes most pronounced during the heroine's stupendous singing of the work's signature aria Vissi d'arte) all figure heavily in a send-up that shatters every cliche in the trunk. Opera buffs can delight in spotting references to great, legitimate performances -- from Tosca...
...model for this changing network landscape is Fox, the fourth network, started by media baron Rupert Murdoch in 1986. With its methodical, one-night- at-a-time pursuit of the Big Three, Fox was a tough competitor because it played by different rules. Even though it now programs 15 hours of prime time a week -- one FCC benchmark for what constitutes a network -- Fox has managed to avoid the commission restrictions on program ownership and syndication that govern the Big Three. This annoys the other networks, which argue that Fox receives an unfair competitive advantage from Washington while it escapes...
...Queen Victoria reluctantly handed over an 8- lb. silver ewer to a team of swaggering American sailors in 1851, the America's Cup (as it was called from then on) has overflowed with machismo. It was not just the Vanderbilts, the Liptons, the Ted Turners, the Alan Bonds, the Baron Bichs and the Raul Gardinis out to prove who was the richest, swiftest guy on the dock. The very image of the U.S. as a mega-tech superpower seemed at stake. Let Airbus lend its experts to the French, let the Australians weigh in with winged keels, let the Japanese...
...experience. Dissension was not afflicting the U.S. alone though. In Germany the Suddeutsche Zeitung last week put on its front page a classified wire sent to Bonn by the German ambassador to NATO, Hermann von Richthofen, a grandnephew of the World War I flying ace known as the Red Baron. His complaints centered on what he styled an arbitrary U.S. push to expand NATO eastward rapidly and to lift the arms embargo on Bosnia, which he said would strain the alliance "to the limits...