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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prices are indeed high. In the shopping meccas of Paris' Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, Munich's Maximilianstrasse or Brussels' Avenue Louise, a Pierre Cardin tie costs $40, a Réty suit $440 and a Balenciaga handbag $370. Even the cost of window-shopping is steep. Hotel rooms in a smart area of a capital city can easily cost $75 a night, a good dinner for two starts at $60 or more, and a week's car rental often tops $300. Local residents, of course, avoid the stores and services that tourists frequent. Even...
...sport as a sport, not as a fashion." Many of those who tried tennis during the boom times but found it tough to master have moved on to jogging or simpler racquet sports. In fact, some of the nation's 11,000 indoor tennis facilities, which cost about $165,000 a court to build, have converted their underused courts to racquetball. It is a tennis-like game that employs a bigger racquet and a slower ball and, its promoters hope, may be more easily mastered by the nation's millions of would-be Everts and Borgs...
...Gate, will dramatize the Johnson County War as lavishly as his last film did the war in Viet Nam, but the price will be steeper. The Deer Hunter was a $12 million movie. By the time Heaven's Gate is completed in October, it will probably cost more than twice that much...
Heaven's Gate will cost as much as Francis Coppola's $30 million Apocalypse Now, which was also released by United Artists. But Coppola put up more than half the money for Apocalypse, while Heaven's Gate is being almost entirely financed by U.A. The dialogue between director and studio, according to one production insider, was "switchblades and garbage-can covers," but Field claims to be unperturbed. Says he: "I think Michael is making a masterpiece. We are trying to do everything in the world to keep that picture going...
...trans formed himself into an avenging angel of bookkeeping; invoking the Freedom of Information Act to gain access to HEW audit files, he has made a nationwide study of the accounting practices of 100 colleges. Among his findings: overbilling of federal research grants for medical insurance; hiding cost overruns with "journal transfers"-the practice of billing one project for work done on another...