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Lately, however, bisexuality has been hard to overlook. Bisexual characters are the newest twist in movies and TV shows, most notably Basic Instinct and L.A. Law. PBS recently broadcast a drama based on the lives of writers Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson, both bisexuals. Authors Camille Paglia and the late John Cheever have confessed their sexual duality; recent biographies claim that Laurence Olivier, Cary Grant and Eleanor Roosevelt had affairs with both men and women...
...until last May, an underground meteorological station at the site issued daily reports on wind direction and speed, plotting potential radiation patterns. The site's television studio is prepared to provide the President -- or his successor -- a national audience over the Emergency Broadcast System. Throughout the Eisenhower Administration -- and for years after -- a vault held tape-recorded addresses by both Eisenhower and celebrity Arthur Godfrey. The prerecorded message was concise: The country has come under nuclear attack, but the government continues to function. In addition, a number of prominent newsmen who had taken oaths of secrecy had agreed to accompany...
...1960s and completed by the mid-'70s, could shelter as many as 120,000 people, and included food supplies that could last up to 30 years. Quarters for top leaders were comfortably appointed, and movie theaters were built for entertainment. Some 30 miles outside Moscow in Sofrino, an underground broadcast-communications installation built during Nikita Khrushchev's tenure is now outdated and inoperative, according to Igor Malashenko, deputy director of state television and radio. "Because we don't need it anymore, it's been slowly stripped of spare parts," he says. A similar fate befell many of the tens...
Ironically, the financial picture was brighter for NBC's old-fashioned broadcast coverage. For the first five nights of competition, the Games averaged a surprisingly high 19.9 prime-time rating -- 17% higher than the Seoul Games got for the same period four years ago. NBC, expecting a falloff, had promised advertisers only between a 15 and 16. Still, NBC officials conceded that the network would probably lose $30 million to $40 million on its Olympics investment...
...ambitious TripleCast always posed a tricky problem for NBC. To promote it, the network implicitly had to denigrate its own broadcast coverage -- stressing that the pay-TV event would be live and commercial free in contrast to the broadcast programming, which is mostly taped and filled to the brim with ads. Indeed, TripleCast viewers -- however few -- have found NBC's evening coverage disingenuous, not to say superfluous: Costas and crew have had to manufacture suspense around events already completed and aired earlier in the day. What's more, the TripleCast's no-nonsense approach (events shown in full; no distracting...