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...pheasant broth were followed by the San Francisco Opera and Symphony performing a bit of Leonard Bernstein's Candide. A run on velvets and silks? For just one movie-studio dinner, velvet and silk and chiffon were turned into half a million dollars' worth of dresses; custom-made hats (at up to $500 each) and long white kid gloves ($150 a pair) were de rigueur much of the week...
Although there are no plans to show Pirates again on pay television, the dual-release technique will undoubtedly be tried again. Just as Gilbert and Sullivan's pirates eventually become assimilated into polite society, this approach may become a custom in years to come. Les Brown, editor in chief of Channels magazine, even predicts that pay TV's customers will increasingly include the theaters themselves: "I expect to see antennas springing up on moviehouses, which will thus become videohouses as well...
...unanimous ruling, a five-judged panel of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court said writing recommendations for students appeared to be nothing more than "a custom...
...That custom, "if such a custom exists, should not be held to rise to the level of a legal duty," said the judicial panel in upholding a lower court ruling...
...defendant was a dour ex-CIA agent with dark, glowering eyes and a tight-lipped G. Gordon Liddy demeanor. The other was a jovial Englishman who smokes Cuban cigars, drives a $60,000 custom-made Cadillac convertible and cracks jokes about himself as a "good ole boy" who "drills a little oil and raises a little beef on his 2,000-acre ranch near Dallas. Their personalities may differ, but the two millionaires have much in common. Both Edwin Wilson and Ian Smalley were on trial in Texas, in unrelated but remarkably comparable cases, charged with masterminding elaborate arms-smuggling...