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Despite the mobs of customers trying to buy the $69.99 tickets, World's splash promotion was off to a bumpy start last week. Many of the first flights into the air were only half-full because ticket offices had been so overwhelmed by the rush of customers and the company's malfunctioning computer reservation system showed that the planes were full. The colorful and controversial gambler in the air has spun the wheel again; passengers will decide if he comes up a winner...
...slice of rocking blues, with a sweeping crescendo of an opening fit for the King himself. The sheer crunch of two guitars with nothing to anchor them to the rhythm boggles. More often than not, all three instrumentalists seem to play a note or more apart, creating more sonic splash than a complete collection of Carl Perkins records. The middle eight finds either Ivy or Gregory imitating the sound of static on a portable radio as you switch from one station to the next...
...Britain, Swiss-born Archbishop Bruno Heim, 68. The supplicant chef frequently turns out to be Heim himself, who likes to slip an apron over his cassock to whip up sauces or stir his favorite golden champagne cocktails (ingredients: good champagne, a soupçon of pineapple juice, a splash of Cointreau, 12 oz. of soda and a tsp. of sugar). Heim, who speaks 14 languages, newly enjoys, as apostolic delegate, diplomatic status granted by the British government, healing a breach opened with the Roman church by Henry VIII; his credentials as a gourmet have been accepted by such distinguished dinner...
Whenever PBS produces its own dramatic programs, it tries to be all things to all its constituencies. There is almost always a dash of intellectual pretension (to please the grant-bestowing foundations), a splash of uplift (to humor the corporate sponsors) and a rustle of period costumes (to attract the BBC fans). The result is often tiresome television, but occasionally there is a glorious exception. Such is the case with American Short Story. Though this returning series satisfies all the dreary institutional demands of PBS, it also provides remarkably sophisticated entertainment...
...dwarfing the $250 million Lockheed loan guarantee of 1971, is designed to save from bankruptcy the nation's third largest automaker and tenth ranking manufacturer (1978 sales: $13.6 billion). With Chrysler's losses mounting daily, its 1979 deficit is almost sure to exceed $1 billion, the gaudiest splash of red ink in U.S. corporate history...