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...reverse the trend in soaring budgets, sparked a decade ago at all three networks by the lure of high-tech equipment and ABC News President Roone Arledge's U.S.F.L.-style raids on the competition. Sending the A team to sites of big stories is another hefty item; a weekend in Reykjavik cost each network around $1 million. And in the days of affluence, says a former CBS executive, "Dan Rather used to go overseas with an entourage that would have made Cleopatra comfortable." Those days ended when new managements arrived at the networks...
...copped a Grammy as Best New Artist in 1973. Her 1979 LP, The Rose, went platinum. In 1983 she even found a perch on the best-seller lists with her children's book The Saga of Baby Divine. But what, these days, becomes a legend most? The one little item that eluded Bette Midler: movie stardom. Her galvanizing turn in The Rose, as a soulful thrush on the high wire of drugs, sex and rock 'n' roll, earned the actress raves and an Oscar nomination and . . . precisely no film offers. Her next star role, in the black-and-blue comedy...
...challenging speaker, it is unfortunate that a biography of von Weizsacker prepared by the University's press office deliberately omitted any reference to his army service. It was foolish to try to deny his years in the German infantry, to skip them over as if they were just another item on a long curriculum vitae. But it also displayed an insensitivity to the very reasons that make von Weizsacker a man worthy of giving this year's commencement address and receiving an honorary degree: his call never to forget the past...
Attempting to make room for spring and summer items, department stores and clothing emporia have drastically reduced their winter-item prices, creating a bonanza for bargain hunters looking to add that one last item to their winter stock...
Most popular item at Godiva Chocolatier: 140. of chocolates in a red velvet heart box for the cost...