Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hardly be faulted for encouraging Hollywood's top talent to put big visions onto the small screen. Nor can the NBC brass be accused of gambling everything on one show. The network's other new series, including Hell Town, starring Robert Blake as a vigilante priest, and the highly touted sitcom The Golden Girls, have decent shots at survival. So do any number of new entries on the competing networks' rosters. Tartikoff, one of whose ten TV commandments is the famous "All hits are flukes," is sanguine about the immediate future. "We won't be surprised," he says...
...California, Los Angeles, was the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the premier showcase of the most esoteric of computer sciences. Five years ago, a similar meeting at Stanford University was attended by 900 earnest academics. The UCLA gathering drew a crowd of 10,000 that included military brass, investment bankers and scores of corporate headhunters...
...former commander (Richard Crenna), Rambo takes on a dangerous reconnaissance mission to search out MIAs in Viet Nam. Sure enough, he finds some in a supposedly deserted prison camp, guarded by sinister Vietnamese and their evil Soviet overlords. But his mission is sabotaged by the top military brass, who want to close the book on the whole MIA episode. The allegorical message of the film is potent. Like American soldiers in Viet Nam, Rambo tries to do a job but is defeated by his superiors. Left to his own devices, however, he shows all the skill, cunning and ruthlessness that...
...glass and metal and ! guarded by exhaust pipes with garishly painted air vents. Comments Harvard Graduate Student Michael Cornfield: "The entrance looks like Superman's Fortress of Solitude." Inside, a steep, monumental staircase features antique friezes on one wall, while the opposite side is adorned with massive tubular brass railings...
...talk deals at Boston's Ritz-Carlton, which offers a variety of teas, steeped in floral china pots. New York City's WaldorfAstoria reinstated tea service just over one year ago. Says Food and Beverage Director Thomas Monetti: "People like the relaxing harp music and the elegance of the brass tea trolleys. You often see papers and memos out on the tables." "It's a very graceful way to do business," says John Strauss, manager of San Francisco's elegant Four Seasons Clift Hotel. "Some of them add a glass of wine to the service. It's a kind...