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...unbending morally, for Sally turns around and blithely participates in a plot to steal Felix's remade movie back from him. He dies defending it ("Don't worry, this could add $10 million to the box office") and is accorded a soundstage funeral-a stained-glass pattern projected on a cyclorama, his wife's guru reading from such sacred works as his list of credits (Chicken at the Wheel, Love on a Pogo Stick) and reports of boffo grosses for his last work. The mourners, of course, go right on making deals and trying to steal...
...upsurge in protest calls and letters to networks, local stations, sponsors or retail stores. CBS had received only about 50 letters on the proposed boycott; half opposed the idea. NBC Vice Chairman Richard Salant said he had recently received 'thousands" of Christian brochures, some with accompanying letters, a pattern familiar to networks and rarely taken seriously: almost all were protesting Love, Sidney, a new situation comedy that is being considered for NBC's fall schedule with a homosexual as the title character. Dow Chemical, which was listed as the second "least constructive" advertiser in a December 1980 report...
...This pattern can lead to a psychological dependence whose effects are not all that different from addiction. Moreover, there is growing clinical evidence that when coke is taken in the most potent and dangerous forms-injected in solution, or chemically converted and smoked in the process called freebasing-it may indeed become addictive...
There will be hardly any pattern to the fares the travelers will pay: some charges will seem strangely high, others absurdly low. In New Haven, Conn., last week, bargain hunters snapped up promotional 75? tickets-a penny a mile-for New Air's inaugural flight to New York City's LaGuardia Airport. The fare will increase in stages to $32 by July...
Sometimes, rather surprisingly, it is there. In particular it seems to lurk in the Mirrors, a series of paintings Lichenstein completed between 1970 and 1972. With their silvery surfaces, reflection lines and bevels and breaks in the light, which manage to function equally as pattern and as illusion (the mirror, in art, being one of the arenas in which both can live side by side), these paintings possess a ravishing formal elegance...