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...environmentalists' case against the Concorde revived with a whoosh. Returning to France, one of the $60 million planes took off with an earsplitting roar that re-ignited debate over the plane's noise levels and seemed sure to reinforce resistance that is now keeping the craft out of New York...
...quality without a huge budget. Special effects like those in The Poseidon Adventure or Earthquake are frightfully expensive to film. Such "bankable" stars as Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand can easily command $1 million a picture; top-name directors like Hal Ashby (Shampoo) can earn up to $500,000. Craft union wages are up 15% over last year. Even a middling movie can end up costing $6 million, which makes it a gamble: such a movie generally must gross $18 million before it covers overhead and distribution costs and even begins returning a profit. "The numbers are incredible," says Mike...
...show illustrates how immaterial the distinction the West draws between art and craft was in traditional Japanese culture: a kosode, or small-sleeved robe - like the 17th century garment in two colors of figured satin, the jagged yellow sheet sweeping diagonally upward across its black ground - is as satisfying a work of art as any scroll or painted screen. Some kimono are filmy and almost blank, with patterns and emblems grouped in small areas. Others, like the takarazukushi, or "myriad treasures" robes, swarming with thousands of embroidered good-luck symbols, look thick enough to stand up on their...
South House, which always provides a good laugh, did it again when its plywood and oil drum craft simply folded up, sandwiching several hardy souls in the middle...
Indeed, pickets seemed to be nearly everywhere in the city. Three weeks ago 1,900 municipal transit workers walked off their jobs. They did so in support of 1,779 city craft workers (including plumbers, electricians, carpenters and sanitation men) who struck March 31 when the city froze their pay and reduced their benefits. The city wants to pay plumbers $20,150, but they are holding out for $21,500. Gardeners would get $17,330 instead of the $21,000 they want, and electricians would collect $16,620, not the $21,620 they hope for. City residents voted...