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...walled off. Behind the barrier, a surveillance camera was trained on customers in the living room. The drug salesman, sitting in a kitchen equipped with three telephones and a box full of cash, remained unseen behind a fortified door but was able to monitor the outer room via closed-circuit TV. Buyers spoke to the seller through an intercom. Money and drugs were passed through a tiny opening in the wall...
...Robert De Niro in his first stage effort since 1970's One Night Stands of a Noisy Passenger. The seven-week off-Broadway run sold out in three hours. After Cuba began previews last month, the Public started selling tickets to overflow crowds to watch the play on closed-circuit...
...month experiment during May with closed-circuit broadcasts to Capitol offices seemed to go smoothly enough, even if some Senators complained that the sharp camera angles exposed their baldness (staffers are working to improve the angle before the show goes live). Inevitably, of course, some Senators will play for the nightly news. Three weeks ago, William Proxmire of Wisconsin illustrated that U.S. consumption of dairy products is rising by brandishing large chunks of cheese. Protested Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa: "The public perception is that unless they see you on TV, you're not doing your job. When my colleagues...
...visitors tug at lavender T shirts to get a look at pinned-on paper fans printed with their personal drill. Most get six hours of relentless exercise, beginning with a brisk 1 1/2- to 5 1/2-mile hike at dawn and climaxing in the afternoon with the women's aerobic circuit, WAC in the appropriate acronym. As Offenbach's cancan blares, exercisers WAC out on each of 22 pieces of alternating equipment, moving every 45 seconds from arm weights to a stationary bike to leg presses to the rowing machine. To help the medicine go down, there is often a spoonful...
...longer. Harry, 66, and Erica, 53, are now divorced and locked in a legal slugfest in front of God and everybody: specifically, on the gritty stage of the State Circuit Court in Milwaukee. Erica and another De Rance director charge that Harry has pushed the foundation toward financial ruin by misspending close to $150 million in barely three years. They want the court to remove him as a director-trustee and take away his control of its funds. Harry insists their suit, now in its fifth week, is "a simple power grab...