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...experiment was designed to see if televising sessions of the House was feasible. Since the program has the backing of Speaker Tip O'Neill, the cameras are expected to become a fixture when the House decides the issue in a few weeks. Last week's picture, which was clear and sharp, went only to monitors in the offices of House members. Under carefully prepared rules, the six remote-controlled cameras focused on the Speaker's rostrum and on the majority and minority tables. They did not roam the aisles or catch members catnapping in their seats...
...networks nor public broadcasters have agreed to pick up the programs once they start. Some 200 cable-TV stations, however, have signed up to make gavel-to-gavel coverage of the House available to their subscribers. Given the chamber's arcane procedures and routine business, not even Tip O'Neill expects to rival Mork as a TV personality, and the ratings of the soaps will not be threatened by the daily travails and dramas in the Big House on the Hill...
...some city dwellers, owning an apartment is an even better hedge against inflation than owning a house. In Chicago, the little local joke is that condos are the hottest thing since Mrs. O'Leary's celebrated fire. They are appreciating at an annual rate of 14% to 15%, vs. 12% for single family homes, and turnover of the city's 43,000 condos is almost double that of other residential real estate. In Boston's Wellesley Green condo, a three-bedroom apartment in what its developers, Spaulding & Slye Corp., describe as a "luxury, luxury condominium...
...Elizabethan England staked enduring claims on the minds and hearts of generations to come through the power of their dramatists. Whatever the glories of the U.S. musical, the chances are that the laurel wreaths of posterity will rest on the brows of dramatists whose stature equals that of Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams. To foster potential successors to such playwrights is the worthiest of theatrical aims. Under the venturesome leadership of Jon Jory, that is precisely what Kentucky's Actors Theater of Louisville does...
Author Flannery O'Connor spent most of her adult life with her mother on a dairy farm just outside Milledgeville, Ga., up the road a piece from Macon and a middling way from Atlanta. Her isolation there began involuntarily. At 25 she was already a noteworthy Southern expatriate and a prizewinning graduate of the University of Iowa's School for Writers. She had put in time at Yaddo, an artists' retreat in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., along with luminous fellow guests like Robert Lowell. She had settled down in the Connecticut household of Poet Robert Fitzgerald, his wife...