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THREE HOURS IN LENGTH, director Magaril's production varies widely in quality. The cast seems to walk through certain scenes, such as the mini-climax which occurs when Christine (Debbie Wasser) kills Ezra (Benajah Cobb). The underplayed emotions defuse the scene's potential. At other points, though, the tension is very real. A card game between mother and daughter and the final conversation between brother and sister provide a genuine spark...
Costing an average $35,000 to produce, the three-to five-minute clips on Music Television were originally little more than lip-synched concert or studio bits. Now they accompany almost every album and are often mini-epics. Michael Jackson's Beat It is a $150,000, five-minute West Side Story, in which the singer flashdances through a cast of 80 gang members (most of them real Los Angeles street dudes) and 60 scenes to avert a showdown...
...home listening, the record industry has helped itself by developing a number of low-priced alternatives to $8.98 albums. The mini-LP ($4.49) contain-about five rather than ten songs, and introduces new groups like Scandal, who might have been bypassed on a full-price album. The 12-in. single ($3.49), an extended version of the standard 45-r.p.m. disc remixed with extra instrumental riffs for dancing, can sell as many as 200,000 units extra for every million-selling hit. Deejay John ("Jellybean") Benitez, 25, of Manhattan's Fun House, is so accomplished at remixing hits for club...
...events to which they can bring their entire families, the Radcliffe women must pay for their families and events on an individual basis bringing the total cost for a couple attending all the events to $240.50. And while tens of counselors take care of the Harvard offspring in a mini-summer camp, the Radcliffe alumnae children must fend for themselves...
However, after summoning the students to the Carpenter Center to meet with them and reexamine their term papers and final exams, Rotterdam decided a mini-course would not be adequate...