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...muscle and luster to the new season's prime-time competition, which promises to be the tightest in years, NBC has lured the executive producer of Back to the Future, Steven Spielberg, to mastermind a suspense anthology series called Amazing Stories. With Hollywood's alltime hitmaker anchoring the Sunday night lineup, and with a flock of summer comers, Tinker figures that "this fall may be the time when NBC blows right by everybody." Tartikoff seems energized by the thrill of the chase. "In the past," he says, "every time a show bit the dust, you figured you'd be joining...
Baldrige's wry eye records something important about Reagan's Government at this critical moment. The bright colors have faded. The sheer joy of possessing power has lost some luster. The men and women in Reagan's Cabinet are, with the possible exceptions of Education Secretary William Bennett and Attorney General Edwin Meese, centrists devoted to preserving and enlarging the beachhead won in the first term. Their passion has cooled with experience, extreme ideology has given way to accommodation. The controversy that followed Haig, Watt and Donovan has been replaced by the solid sense of Shultz, Hodel and Brock...
...within the power, and they were about as good as you can be at that strange business. There have been stories, of course, about occasional stress backstage, and there may be some new revelations as the books and reminiscences roll out. But it will be hard to dim the luster of these four years, a remarkably long time for three ambitious aides to hang together and successfully support a President...
Last week's deal added luster both to De Benedetti's reputation as a manager and to his flair for the dramatic, characteristics that have been his trademark for his nearly eight years at Olivetti. Says he: "This is the first time in Italy that a private businessman bought a state-controlled company and ! paid for it with real money, not pieces of paper or promises for future returns." After the new agreement is completed, Olivetti and the Buitoni- SME food group will remain separate corporate entities, but they will both come under De Benedetti's direction...
Eggs hatching babies, giant toadstools, but her-world creatures climbing up through the village well, and, of course, those amazing lycanthropes themselves; they're all here. And it is all shown to advantage against sets that glow with the medieval luster of a Waterhouse painting...