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...bought and sold 400 Dallas Cowboys [asking price $62 million], but their personality and everything has already been established. I don't get off on that. I get off on building things from the ground up." At his Investment Mortgage International offices in San Francisco, a large Chinese gong is rung whenever a million-dollar deal...
Feeling a little like that gong, the 64-year-old N.F.L. has been losing some rather choice material to the two-year-old spring league-from eminent Underclassmen Herschel Walker (newly renegotiated New Jersey Generals contract: $6 million for four years) and Marcus Dupree (New Orleans Breakers, $6 million for five years) to 1983 Heisman Trophy Winner Mike Rozier (Pittsburgh Maulers, $3 million for three years) and Young, whose playing obligation is four years. A 6-ft. 1-in. lefthander, he passed for an average of 395 yds. per game last season. Cincinnati Bengals Assistant General Manager Mike Brown...
Sometimes a dominant color, like the striking of a great gong, will fill a whole painting as surely as it does a Matisse: so with Moroni's extraordinary Portrait of Gian Gerolamo Grumelli. The picture has its allegorical furniture. The ivy clinging to the ruin suggests clan loyalty, the broken statue (whose foot remains in the niche) symbolizes the passage of time, and the motto on the bas-relief, "Better the follower than the forerunner," is a manifesto of conservatism. Yet what counts visually is the brocaded red figure, glowing with arrested vitality against the gray ground...
That one of the problems of governing today is the excessive partisanship of Republicans and Democrats seems not to have bothered the television impresarios, who appear determined to make the campaign the biggest Gong Show of this singular year. "Politics became fun," burbled Washington Post TV Critic Tom Shales. "National fun on live TV . . . nearly as action-packed as The A-Team." Will the political handlers, consultants, producers and scriptwriters-a flourishing industry now in league with the media-turn this campaign into a litany of despair, with each candidate exaggerating America's problems in order to sell...
Promptly at 10 a. m. on Thursday Oct. 24, sounded the gong of the New York Stock Exchange and 6,000 shares of Montgomery Ward changed hands at 83-its 1929 high having been...