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...Americans would rush to trade dollars for the yellow metal after it became legal for them to own bullion on Dec. 31. Bullion bulls in Europe and the Middle East were only temporarily distressed by the American disinterest, however. In a show of confidence that legal gold would yet glitter for them, they bid the price back up to $178 on the London market by week...
...large, almost cult-like following there from as far as New York and Philadelphia, as numerous intermission-time re-encounters revealed. And indeed some of the members of this group were almost as entertaining as the performance, looking like personalities from a "Who's Who in Wonderland" directory. Glitter in the jammed lobby reached from wall to wall, a la East Village via Hollywood chic...
...only does De Palma send up every known form of rock, from hard to glitter, but just about every other pop style this side of Glenn Miller. He pays homage to such movie masters as Alfred Hitchcock and Raoul Walsh by echoing a couple of their most famous scenes. Like Truffaut, he borrows hoary cinematic devices-the wipe, the iris and the optical montage-only to mix them with currently fashionable gimmicks like the split screen. De Palma's axiom is that in popular culture, today's wow is tomorrow's cliche and the next...
...contributed to another upward leap in gold. Free-market prices have been steadily climbing, partly because speculators are betting that Americans will invest heavily in bullion when it becomes legal to do so on Jan. 1, and the latest flurry of concern over the dollar has given added glitter to gold. Early last week the price on the London exchange hit a record $190.25 per oz.-up from $150 only two months ago-before settling down at week...
...weekend suggest that the brilliant composer may decide eventually to sacrifice his art for greater public acclaim and a higher income. To Zappa's delight, his last three albums, Overnite Sensation, Apostrophe' and Roxy & Elsewhere, scaled the charts and seduced a new crop of listeners--mostly teenyboppers jaded by glitter rock--into becoming "Zappa Freaks." But all this success spells trouble. The band that once proclaimed it had "no commercial potential" is now in danger of becoming much too commercial...