Word: summers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those limits are defined-quite graphically-as incest, drug addiction and ambisexuality. The practitioners of these diverse sports are Caterina (Clayburgh), a recently widowed American opera star, and her androgynous 15-year-old son Joe (Matthew Barry). During the course of a summer singing tour through Italy, the wealthy mother and the spoiled boy carry on a tortured relationship that might well shock the cast of La Dolce Vita. Obscene screaming matches and violent brawls quickly give way to grueling sequences featuring heroin injection and masturbatory sex. The film's dramatic structure is built around the secrets the characters...
...astonishing: $225 million. But ABC, which last week agreed to pay that much for TV coverage of the 1984 Olympics, thinks it has a bargain. "We intend to more than recover our costs," ABC-TV President Fred Pierce proudly announced in Los Angeles, host city to the '84 summer Games...
...allotted the Olympics only 64 hours. Next summer, to get back its $87 million, NBC will throw out almost everything else on its schedule for two weeks and devote 150 hours to events in Moscow. In 1984 ABC plans to raise the total to 200 hours. It will also have a tune advantage in Los Angeles that NBC will not have in Moscow: the West Coast is three hours behind the East, so daylight events will attract viewers in the East during prime-time hours. By that time, viewers may have ODed on athletics and turned to reruns of Laverne...
...four times a season, McKay figures he can parlay the ten hives he is taking to Kansas into 10,240 hives in five years. Each hive can "cheerfully" produce 80 to 100 lbs. of honey a year. This he will ship east in summer for sale. The music boxes will take up the trading slack in winter...
Throughout the summer, private sessions with Le Duc Tho-"Ducky" to the American negotiators-brought what Kissinger describes as "significant movement, entirely by Hanoi." Probably convinced that Nixon would be much stronger after the November elections, Hanoi began to press for a quick settlement...