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...content to duel Hugh Hefner on the newsstands, Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione seems determined to outdo the Playboy prince in the real estate department too. Guccione has paid more than $1 million in cash for the 40-room Manhattan mansion that once belonged to Financier Jeremiah Milbank, and he is preparing to spend another $1 million or so to have it "all redone in Italian Renaissance, very classical and simple." Besides a Roman-bath swimming pool and quarters for nine live-in servants, Guccione's digs will also feature accommodations for visiting Penthouse pets, but with some differences from...
...child (herself as a child, or an Emily from another time, or both) living out some fairly loveless incidents from a past that may be real or subconscious. But no past of any sort can look as bleak as Mrs. Lessing's present. Only the future can outdo that...
WHAT HAPPENS when three of the best musicians at Harvard give a joint performance? They might engage in a battle of the gods, each trying to outdo the others. Or they might do what Lynn Chang. Yo Yo Ma and Richard Kogan did last Saturday night during their performance of Beethoven's Concerto for Violin. Cello, and Piano. The "Triple Concerto" rarely appears on concert programs because of the difficulty of finding three virtuoso musicians willing to share the spotlight. But none of the three Harvard undergrads playing with the Bach Society tried to upstage the others. Instead they played...
...country seem to be bursting with welcome news for the battered U.S. consumer: prices of all sorts of goods and services are coming down, down, down. Inspired by Detroit's generally successful efforts to pull customers back into showrooms, retailers, builders, bankers and manufacturers have been attempting to outdo one another in offering sales, specials, discounts and, above all, their own variations on the carmakers' rebates...
...Coast Guard in Miami responds to the many inquiries about the mysteries of the triangle with a prepared handout that presents a rational explanation of the hazards in the area. "It has been our experience," the Coast Guard says, "that the combined forces of nature and unpredictability of mankind outdo even the most farfetched science fiction many times each year." The handout notes that the triangle is one of two places where magnetic compasses point to true north-and thus may be confusing to navigators who are not used to compass variations...