Word: short
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...APPOINTMENTS OF DENNIS JENNINGS (HBO, starting March 6, 10 p.m. EST). Deadpan comic Steven Wright plays a paranoid writer trying to sort out his life in this short, also an Oscar nominee...
...were quickly rekindled when major banks, led by Chase Manhattan, boosted their prime lending rate from 11% to 11.5%, the second increase in two weeks. At week's end the Federal Reserve confirmed the quickening trend by raising its discount rate, which is the rate it charges banks for short-term loans, from 6.5% to 7%. Anticipating the effects that $ rising rates will have on business and the economy, the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 42.5 points in one session after the inflation numbers were released last Wednesday. Over the course of the week, investors sent the Dow falling...
...Afrindeur Americans to reflect the mingling of African, Indian and European bloodlines. "Historical, biological and cultural integrity is what's in a name," says Counter. "We must be true to all of those." In Los Angeles entertainer John KaSondra has embarked on his own crusade in favor of "Dobanians" -- short for descendants of black African natives in the American North...
...view has had its share of duds. A Dirty Dancing concert last November drew fewer than 80,000 subscribers. Viewership for the Sinatra- Minnelli-Davis concert is still being tabulated, but will probably fall well short of 100,000. Still, the concert's packager, Showtime Event Television, is pursuing other big stars for PPV events, and industry executives are bullish. "We're building an electronic arena," says Jeffrey Reiss, chairman of Request Television. "The day will come when Bruce Springsteen will be playing pay-per-view at the end of his tour. We're betting on the future...
...Korotich, editor of the popular weekly magazine Ogonyok, walked out of a seven-hour session in Pravda's House of Culture, charging that the delegates had been stacked and that the meeting was being manipulated by the chairman. Two weeks ago, Andrei Sakharov withdrew his candidacy by publishing a short announcement in a Moscow newspaper saying he would run only as a representative of the Academy of Sciences, which turned him down as a candidate last month...