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...privatization of entertainment," says psychologist Jerald Jellison of the University of Southern California. Experts believe the anonymity of the telephone offers a psychological safety valve to the secret keeper, who feels compelled to unburden himself but fears vilification. Says UCLA's Goodman: "It's the interpersonal parallel of a one-night stand...
...much for the campaign. So much for running an issues-based offensive against your opponent. You're stuck with defending your record--your college record, that is. Everything from your S.A.T. scores to your dispute with a section leader over a grade to the one-night stand you tried to forget everytime you saw your classmate in the hall...
...case of most films, home-video companies figure that fans will be satisfied with a one-night stand. The companies set the price high, assuming that most cassettes will be bought only by retailers, who in turn will rent them to customers and keep all the rental income. (The price is typically reduced eight or nine months later.) But a few studios, notably Paramount and Disney, have pioneered prices of under $30 for first-run releases deemed to be collectible. These include pop entertainments like Raiders of the Lost Ark, cult faves like Star Trek IV and children's classics...
...that bent and broadened the language. He demolished the pop-music wall that had long separated singer and songwriter; now a man could perform his own compositions and do it with amazing sass. He could do wrong too, and here again Berry was a pioneer. Through decades of one-night stands, too much monkey business and a few command performances in stir, he fixed the image of the rock artist as outlaw...
...that's what matters. Indeed, we are on a bus-and- truck tour, a theatrical institution of small renown wherein cast, crew, orchestra, props and scenery pile into buses and trucks to barnstorm the country. This particular company is spending five months on the road doing mostly one-night stands. They wake up in time to make the bus, travel much of the day to a new theater, play their parts, then adjourn to a hotel till bus call the next morning. Thus pass strings of small cities: Harlingen, McAllen, Corpus Christi; Pueblo, Albuquerque, El Paso. Four months into...