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...Palace as a whole. It dis closes itself in time, and each passage of shapes is apt to erase and replace one's memory of its predecessor. In short, it aspires - to employ that gnomic phrase of Walter Pater's - toward the condition of music, the serial art par excellence...
...crisp new 1,000-guilder notes, worth about $400 each. What continues to puzzle police is why the kidnapers would demand payment in a denomination of bills that is 1) hard to assemble in large quantities even at banks, and 2) easily traceable (the police have the serial numbers of all the bills). Thus, while the cops regard the ransom payment as a private business transaction, they do not plan to mark the Caransa case closed until those new mysteries are solved...
...hour-long serial, Washington: Behind Closed Doors, is a fine example: it was called fiction (which helps avoid libel suits), but since it was loosely "based" on a novel by John Ehrlichman, who went from the White House to the jailhouse, part of the fun was seeing how he got even with his Washington colleagues. At least Washington stuck fairly close to its characters' recognizable attributes, unlike most of the schlocky bestselling novels of recent years that trade on the public's understanding that they are really about Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Onassis or Howard Hughes The viciousness...
...networks from Norman Lear. Still, with TV violence out of fashion, the sitcom mills have been the busiest of all, with eight new shows. If Soap, a Lear-ish entry from ABC, is any indication, sex may replace the Shootout as a video pastime. The half-hour weekly serial is a family farce complete with philandering husband, a mother and daughter who pursue the same tennis pro, a transvestite son, and many, many others...
...Chicago Sun-Times's Bagtime was the story of Mike Holiday, a grocery boy who got into improbable situations with local politicians and socialites. The serial ran for 5½ months before the hero was lost at sea while surfing off San Clemente. Recently revived as Bagtime II, the series has Mike meeting up with Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic and his bride in California and then heading back home to his fans...