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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...networks this year had to face another fact of TV life that is becoming increasingly apparent: they are no longer the only game in town. The gavel-to- gavel duties have largely been taken over by Ted Turner's Cable News Network and C-SPAN, the cable public-affairs channel. Operating on its home turf, CNN had a force of some 300 at the convention, up from 275 in '84, and proved to be a fully muscled competitor to the Big Three. Meanwhile, the convention floor was teeming with local-station crews searching for the hometown angle and conveying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Do Conventions Turn Off the Public? | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

...this affair was so organized it was downright Republican. Pearls and silk dresses were as much in evidence as bizarre headgear. No cigar haze wafted to the ceiling: the party made this its first no-smoking convention. . The aisles were crowded, but the speaker did not pound his gavel and yell for the marshals to clear them. The clusters around the states' computer terminals resembled Wall Street trading pits. And the delegates were so thin. "It used to be," says Political Consultant Mandy Grunwald, "that the quintessential Democratic conventioneer weighed about 250 lbs. Now everyone is slimmed down and aerobically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats True-Life Tales from the Omni | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

More than 90 collectors, dealers and museum curators had been flown in from the U.S. and Europe by Sotheby's; others had submitted written offers or were plugged in by telephone. When the final gavel fell after two frantic hours, the take for the 120 works was the equivalent of $3.6 million. The figure "exceeded our wildest expectations," said Sotheby's Auctioneer Simon de Pury, who organized the sale under the sponsorship of the Soviet Ministry of Culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beyond The Wildest Expectations | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

...stung by association with the "sleaze factor" in the Reagan Administration, find the potential for a so's-your-old-man response a small price to pay for throwing a cloud over the man who is the highest-ranking Democrat in the country and who will be banging the gavel at this summer's Democratic Convention. At midweek Vice President George Bush played this game when he turned questions about the ethics of Attorney General Edwin Meese into a call for an independent counsel to investigate Wright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Speaker's Wrong Stuff | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

Proceeds from the auction -- after Sotheby's 10% commission -- will go to the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, established in the artist's will. And the foundation need hardly fear that Warholmania will fade after the final gavel. Also under way are major exhibits, movie retrospectives, books and the franchising of the Warhol name on a line of sportswear, watches, collector's plates and home furnishings. The marketing of the mystique seems perfectly natural in the case of a man who once declared, "Good business is the best art." Nonetheless, last week's inflated auction prices were "queasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Garage Sale of the Century | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

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