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...show-biz demands of television do some damage to the program's credibility. Because it is not a real trial, witnesses could not be subpoenaed (Marina Oswald was among the few who refused to appear). The lawyers agreed to adhere to a time limit on questioning, and the number of witnesses was streamlined. Complained Spence after the taping: "All kinds of inadmissible hearsay got into evidence, necessitated by the fact that this was a three-day trial instead of a three-month trial...
...victimized; the settlers are political schemers and oppressive brutes. You can smell the concluding massacre coming for hours. The film's story may be historically true, and it may provide an apt analogue of current conditions in many parts of the Third World. But one suspects liberal show biz, carried away by its high-mindedness, of bending history to its own sanctimonious purposes. Dramatically too The Mission is a drag, almost as much as those Old Hollywood films like Stanley and Livingstone that mindlessly extolled colonialism's virtues. Indeed, this movie is rather worse than those benighted bio-pics because...
...strong cast, the Argentine impresarios Hector Orezzoli and Claudio Segovia searched southern Spain, the home of flamenco, for the best performers, rather than for glamorous people who could be taught the steps. The result, as in the Tango revue, is a largely middle-age troupe that, by show-biz logic, should cause audiences to snooze in their seats. But nobody snores during this evening, and those superannuated singers and dancers are exhilarating and, yes, sexy...
Have you ever been to a Valium picnic? Or been guilty of scoodling? Or yearned for warm fuzzies? If those terms are totally bewildering, you may want to take a crash course in "biz speak," the increasingly colorful, and sometimes off-color, language of the business world. The vivid vocabulary that bounces around corporate corridors has been collected and codified by Journalist Rachel S. Epstein and Nina Liebman, an industrial-development specialist for the New York State department of commerce, in their new book Biz Speak: A Dictionary of Business Terms, Slang and Jargon (Franklin Watts; $17.95). This handy compendium...
...hometown, and Louise Slaughter of Rochester. As he went door to door speaking on Central America, Gere met a swelling electorate. "People were extraordinarily generous," he said. "They were dressed up in their best. Suddenly 18 people lived in each house; 15 cars were in every driveway." The show biz apparently worked. Said Pooler: "My 17 1/ 2-year-old daughter will never be the same...