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...nature as well as labor history. Leigh Steinberg, perhaps the most powerful individual agent in professional sports, with some 150 clients under contract, agrees, "These sports are showing an incredible amount of self- destruction. This is a golden opportunity squandered. In each case, the leagues seem to have lost sight of that old proposition: the show must...
They have been around for a couple of decades, clunky-looking status symbols from an era before Al Gore had even heard of the information highway. The sight of a 6-ft. satellite dish on the front lawn traditionally signaled one of two things: here is a house so far away from civilization that the cable company won't even bother coming, or here is a homeowner rich enough to afford the most expensive toy in the media supermarket...
...space-age technology, satellite dishes cannot deliver one very homely piece of the media pie: local stations. To get them, satellite customers must either switch back to an ordinary antenna or maintain their basic cable service. Despite a better-quality picture, moreover, DBS depends on a clear line of sight to the southern sky (where DBS satellites are floating 22,000 miles above the earth) and can be disrupted by storms. And bugs still remain in the digital picture quality: very fast action, such as football plays, can sometimes break up. Perhaps more seriously for the future, DBS is incapable...
Vowing retaliation for Israeli government orders to shoot their leaders on sight, Hamas, the militant Islamic group that blew up a Tel Aviv bus last week, threatened to mar President Clinton's five-country Middle East tour with more violence. Since the bombing, Israeli authorities have rounded up dozens of second- and third-tier Hamas operatives from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including, Rabin disclosed today, two alleged accomplices of the suicide bomber, Salah Abdel Rahim Hassan Assawi. Rabin also pledged to amass a 10,000-member security force for Clinton's arrival in Jerusalem Thursday. In Washington, Secretary...
Michelango Antonioni's "L'Avventura" has been called one of the 10 best films of all time (International Critics Poll, Sight and Sound), a boring film about boredom (John Simon) and, in Antonioni's own words, "a mystery film in reverse," but, to this reviewer's knowledge, it has not yet been called the ultimate slacker film...