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...evening began with a lavish, four-hour variety show, complete with glittery set, tuxedoed host and a parade of guest stars. Singer Charles Aznavour cut a ribbon to mark the occasion, and Rudolf Nureyev, Sting and ABC Newsman Peter Jennings were among the celebrities who sent greetings from abroad. Then it was on to regular programming: an onslaught of game shows, movies and weekly series, interrupted regularly by -- mon Dieu! -- commercials...
Little is likely to change in the meantime; little ever does. Game-show contestants are, as always, relentlessly peppy; bedroom sets and trips to Bermuda still bring squeals of ecstasy; hosts are still genial, well manicured and almost exclusively white males. Sets have, however, grown more lavish over the years, and cash prizes have mounted. The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime, which debuted last month, is so proud of offering "the biggest prize in television history" that it displays the cash in bundles stacked on a pedestal at center stage...
Among the few respectable things in that stew of American vanguard kitsch, the 1985 Whitney Biennial, was a large painting by a 36-year-old artist named Terry Winters. Done in a thick, ocherous impasto, which produced a paint surface that looked both lavish and summarily abbreviated, the image suggested (of all unlikely things) mushrooms: swollen glands like morels, crinkled and cellular, standing up in ranks like an array of mysterious brown balloons. It was odd to find any painting in such a show that addressed itself--however obliquely or eccentrically--to nature. But its relation to nature...
That NBC's trouble-plagued Peter the Great actually made it to the screen is close to a miracle; that it turns out to be another of TV's pretty but plodding historical sagas is less surprising. With its lavish sets (including the 17th century Kremlin) and the proverbial cast of thousands, the eight- hour, $27 million epic looks spectacular. Maximillian Schell, the most prominent of four actors who play Peter, has moments of leonine power, and Vanessa Redgrave is striking as his treacherous sister. But the rest of the all-star cast--including Hannah Schygulla, Laurence Olivier, Trevor Howard...
Khadafy's position today is a far cry from the handful of aces he held in 1973. Libya's foreign exchange reserves are dangerously low, and part of Khadafy's claim to power has always been a lavish spending of the nation's petrowealth. Libya's dependence on foreign capital and technical expertise is also critical. Undermining Khadafy's economic position now by shutting him out of Western markets and investments may be just as good as killing him outright; increasing unrest in Libya caused by escalating hardship might produce the same result. If he fears such an outcome...