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...Television City is--what? Towers in a park, sui generis, chess pieces (six pawns, a king, a bishop, a rook) that have slid off the board. Although Architect Helmut Jahn has designed only the basic shapes, sizes and placement of his buildings, it seems clear from the plans and model that it would be an unfamiliar species of urban place, awesome and a little spooky. The ballfield-size spaces between the triplet building clusters and the central megatower look awkwardly large, making the radical change of scale even more unsettling...
...main story line is sturdily intact, Dickens' cry of outrage at society's injustice is heard loud and clear, and some memorable characters are brought to glorious life. Rigg, as Lady Dedlock, is a model of aristocratic propriety starting to crack as her world threatens to unravel. Suzanne Burden as the heroine, Esther Summerson, is just as sweet, sensible and faintly dull as Dickens portrayed her. Den-holm Elliott, as Esther's kindly guardian John Jarndyce, invests a quiet role with remarkable compassion and grace...
...museum-store sales partly reflects the sheer variety of products. These range from the sublime to the slightly ridiculous. Staple items include postcards, calendars, notecards and posters. Beyond that, the potpourri is far less predictable. At the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut one can buy a wooden handcrafted model of a ship ($10,000). Shoppers at Boston's Museum of Science store can take home a tiny piece of the moon, complete with a lunar map locating the crater from which the rock was taken. The single best-selling item in the Smithsonian stores is a $1.25 bar of freeze...
...cuts, say critics, will prove expensive in the long run, because caring for undersize, ailing infants through Medicaid is many times as costly as preventive prenatal measures. In recent years, private organizations and local governments have attempted to fill the gap left by Wiccutbacks. San Francisco's TAPP, a model program that the state plans to extend to other cities, has helped reduce the incidence of low-birth-weight infants to about 4% among the teenagers it counsels, against a national average...
...model for this type of program was the Mechanic Arts High School in St. Paul, which in 1973 became the first public high school in the U.S. to have its own full-service health clinic in the building. Set up by St. Paul-Ramsey Medical Center, it offered everything from immunizations to sport physicals to treatment for venereal disease. Significantly, it also advised teenagers on contraception and dispensed prescriptions for birth control devices (provided that parents had agreed beforehand to allow their children to visit the clinic...