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...damages and a ban on further showings of the film -- but she won from the defendants an admission that the movie had "unintentionally defamed" her. All new copies, including new videocassettes, must now carry prominent disclaimers labeling the story as fiction. She was also awarded $150,000, a sum that will just about cover her current legal expenses. Said her attorney, Harry L. Manion III: "We've won a permanent record for all the world...
...pinch a term from Jean Baudrillard, the French semiotician whose phrases are parroted everywhere in the art world today and recur like pious ejaculations in the exhibition catalog -- a "simulacrum." In days of yore, the aim of a museum retrospective used to be clear. It was to sum up a distinguished career, presenting the evidence of a long life's work. For a major museum to give a 34-year-old artist a retrospective would have seemed absurd, like tossing an egg into the air to admire its grace of flight. Not anymore. The pressures of market hype, acting...
...time when other mountains were starting to condominiumize, Sugarbush had already built the massive Sugarbush Village near its base. When development time came in the late 1970s, Sugarbush bought neighboring Glen Ellen and renamed it Sugarbush North. After spending a considerable sum to upgrade the northern partner, Sugarbush now has two areas each of which is major...
...that doing nothing to diminish the level of federal red ink could be equally dangerous. Massive Government borrowing soaks private savings out of the economy, leaving fewer funds available for business investment. Most ^ ominous, the national debt may exceed $2.2 trillion this year. The interest payments on that gargantuan sum already threaten to put an intolerable burden on future generations. Says Roger Noll, a professor of economics at Stanford: "What we will see happen as a result of continuing deficits is the slow, persistent erosion of the health of the U.S. economy...
...variation on jealousy and revenge: "Maybe you want to end it/ Had your fill of my kind of fun/ But you don't know how to tell me/ And you know I'm not that dumb/I put two and one together,/ And we know that's not an even sum./ And I know just where to catch you with/ That well-known smoking...