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Theatrical movies, when they finally show up on television, have been treated like certain kinds of blue jeans: they have been shrunk to fit. No matter that the pay cable service promises the whole movie, just as it was shown in theaters. Never mind that free TV boasts of showing the same feature complete and uncut. No matter what station you watch, or how much you lay out for special cable channels, you are not seeing the complete movie. It may not have any scenes missing, but chances are it has been reframed, rephotographed and in essence redirected...
...will be 42% Chris tian. The U.S. is the most disparate nation of all, Barrett concludes, with 2,050 denominations for its 161 million Christians, plus myriad non-Christians. It has the largest population of Jews in the world, 7.1 million. Between 1900 and 2000, classical Protestantism will have shrunk from two-thirds of the population to little more than one-third...
...Britain's economic woes and the fading need to defend an empire have dramatically reduced the Royal Navy. As Britain assembled a task force and sent it steaming toward the South Atlantic last week, the once Grand Fleet had shrunk to two light carriers, 14 destroyers, 46 frigates, twelve nuclear-powered submarines, 16 conventional submarines and four Polaris-armed submarines that carry the nation's nuclear deterrent...
...Beatles. Those music machines, though, are going the way of the malt shops that housed so many of them. Industry experts say that by the end of the '80s the brightly lit boxes may be only a memory. The number of coin-operated players has already shrunk from more than 500,000 in 1976 to some...
Nowhere are labor's troubles more evident than in Detroit. As the U.S. auto industry this week limps to the end of its worst sales year since 1961, 345,000 members of the U.A.W. are on temporary or indefinite layoff. Moreover, the union's active membership has shrunk by 300,000 workers since 1979, to 1.2 million. Chrysler has been on the intensive-care list for more than two years, and union officials are now worried about the survival of American Motors. Admits U.A.W. President Douglas Fraser: "The industry and, consequently, the workers are in deep, deep trouble...