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Dish owners enjoy a staggering variety of programs. Not only can they receive all the regular and cable channels, but they get a potpourri of other broadcasts riding the satellite waves. Some of these are not put out by regular channels. Viewers can watch Johnny Carson audience warm-ups that never make NBC's Tonight Show, for example, or N.F.L. football games blacked out in their area. A top-of-the-line dish can even pull in Soviet TV, complete with news programs, ballet, and tank demonstrations...
...only in recent decades. During the 1940s economists made rapid strides in their ability to sift through the billions of transactions that make up economic behavior and distill them into key statistics that indicate the state of the economy. Few experts have been more crucial in turning the numerical potpourri into some kind of order than Sir Richard Stone, 71, who last week won the 1984 Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science. A professor emeritus at Cambridge University, Stone is the fourth British economist to receive the award since it was created in 1969, and the first non- American...
...guest lectures at Harvard Business School in the late 1960s, he sensed in the students' questions an academic naivete about business. He thought they needed "street smarts." Now McCormack has helped out by writing What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School (Bantam; $15.95), a potpourri of tips for anyone who works for a company, runs one or wants...
Israel, in conjunction with executive producer Joe Roth, associate producer Gautam Das, producers Ron Moler and Bob Israel, and presented by Raju Shared Patel in an Aspect Ratio/Twin Continental Production, fills Bachelor Party with a potpourri of literary and classical allusions. Rick (Tom Hanks) is a soon-to-be-wedded bus driver who invokes the love-death imagery of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, the death-as voyage image of classical Greek mythoiogy, and the transportation theme of his own Police Academy. All at the same time...
...fine script and excellent potpourri of supporting actors round off this special movie. Bert Young appears as a rotund godfather type figure, who revels in good pasta and his small network of not-so-efficient hoods...