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...city's financial woes are made worse by recordkeeping so poor that even City Hall can't tell where the red ink is leaking. Mayor Joe Carollo, who took office last July and inherited the current financial mess, concedes that the $68 million deficit figure is little more than a guess, given the state of the city's books. "We know less about our checkbook than the average husband and wife do," says Thomas Tew, a lawyer advising the city...
...hero, is now letting the world glimpse his treasure. In a stunning exhibition titled "Codex Leicester: A Masterpiece of Science" at New York City's American Museum of Natural History, Leonardo's precious sheets are beautifully displayed in climate-controlled glass cases, illuminated only intermittently to protect the ancient ink and paper, while skilled docents use working models to repeat Leonardo's experiments. At nearby computer terminals, museumgoers view digitized images of the manuscript close up, reading English translations alongside Leonardo's Italian, zeroing in on specific drawings and flipping back and forth between the master's idiosyncratic mirror-image...
...make fabulous spies, or spy catchers, the way they used to. For instance, Josephine Baker, the storied American cabaret star who made her home in Paris, spied for the Allies during World War II. She slipped out of Vichy France with intelligence information written on her music in invisible ink and with photographs hidden in her clothes. In Belgium a group of women known as Dames Blanches seemed to be innocently knitting day after day as they sat at their windows, yet all the while they were counting the cars of passing Nazi troop trains...
...played by Saul Rubinek) aren't pushed on us too hard. The one exception is Christine Ebersole as a brassy nightlife reporter who's been to one too many charity soirees; but since she also has the funniest entrance of the show (maybe of the season), she's excused. Ink is now a workplace comedy that really works...
...question is whether it will feel right to the audience. "Shows are not hatched; they develop and evolve," says Jeffrey Katzenberg, co-founder of DreamWorks, the program's producer. "The fact that Ink wasn't there out of the box is not atypical." What is atypical is the spotlight the show is under--as one of CBS's most highly touted fall series and a high-profile vehicle for two very expensive stars. At least now the vehicle seems in shape for the long haul...