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...Thursday Night Football doesn't have the same cachet as ABC's Monday Night version, even the diminished form that program now finds itself in (where have you gone, Dandy Don?). And last night's penalty-filled game, which saw the Chiefs beat the Chargers 31-3, was hardly a classic. Still, it was a fine October night, with a full moon and spectacular views of Kansas City, a town full of crazy little women where everything remains up to date. And what else were you going to do on a Thursday night, watch Seinfeld...
...Lichtenstein's cachet will continue to grow, even after the artist's death Monday (TIME Daily...
Audiences today still get the irony of the Graduate line, although the aesthetic context has been altered now that, thanks to the rise of the postmodern sort of irony, cheesiness has hip cachet and plastic is no longer anathema. Indeed, the movie's mise-en-scene now has unintended resonances. While the filmmakers' intent was to fashion "a scarifying picture of the raw vulgarity of the swimming-pool rich," as Bosley Crowther wrote 30 years ago in the New York Times (this was an era when commentators were concerned with the social pathologies of the rich rather than the poor...
...circulates abroad), many international dollar-holders back then feared that their old $100 bills would be made worthless. In Russia, exchange centers were overwhelmed by worried people looking to change their bills for something smaller. This time around, the response has been muted. "The $100 bill has a certain cachet that $50's don't seem to have," Shannon says. "In the Third World, for example, not many people use $50 bills, but $100 bills are frequently used...
...Here are a few of the objects and the amount they earned, arranged in order of how much the sale price exceeded or fell below the estimate. Age apparently has its perquisites: memorabilia linked to World War II--era personalities outperformed those from more contemporary figures, although the Camelot cachet was still impressive...