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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...
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...
...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...
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...
Acting Gov. Rose Mofford, a Democrat, became governor the moment the gavel fell to close the 21-9 vote to convict on the first charge, obstruction. Two-thirds of the 30-member, GOP-controlled Senate was needed for conviction...