Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thinks it would be fun to put a coven of witches in the Dakota (a fortress-like New York apartment house), writes a best seller, and sells it to Paramount which hires a fashionable director for a small fortune to make the movie. It's a sure-fire success formula--not exactly a sublime collaboration of great artists, let alone unusually talented craftsmen. Rosemary's Baby, then, would be easy to dismiss as a slack and inadequate thriller were it not for everyone's desire to take Polanski seriously as an auteur...
Future Fees. The verdict startled not only the losers but also the victors. The CATV industry was so convinced that it would ultimately have to accept some sort of copyright royalty arrangement that a representative five-man committee was already in the process of negotiating a payment formula with TV and film companies...
...Such a formula will still probably be required. The court's decision does not prevent Congress from legislating a copyright fee to protect the broadcasters and producing firms, and some CATV leaders publicly concede that this would be fair. Says Irving B. Kahn, president of TelePrompTer Corp., a cable franchise holder in New York City and Los Angeles: "We're not looking to be freeloaders. We still have an obligation to knock out a sensible and fair solution to the copyright problem." But the Supreme Court has strengthened the CATV bargaining position when negotiations resume. The cable owners...
Mixers, in addition, will be changed for undergraduates in the Fall. The College has definitely nixed the mass, open mixers so beloved in the past. But no one seems to be quite sure of the compromise formula that Dean Watson's office is supposed to have come up with--designed to satisfy the outraged protests of students who will be back in the Fall...
Many reporters would disagree. There is no formula-and there can be none-to establish how far a newsman should be allowed to go in quest of the truth. Each reporter must decide for himself whether the importance of the facts he is after justifies the compromises he must make to get at them. But there are moral as well as practical limits. In the long run, journalism cannot be based on habitual deceit-if only because a reporter who practices it would lose both his credibility and his sources...