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...billion rubles needed to cover a year's rent on a television studio for the planned video show. But foreign advertising may be a pipe dream. Last May Pravda offered 150 U.S. business executives the opportunity to run full-page ads at approximately $50,000 each; the response was tepid...
...Bush with a tough election-year dilemma. The President does not want to alienate black voters, about half of whom currently support him in opinion polls. But neither does he want to jeopardize the crucial votes of blue-collar Reagan Democrats who oppose any hint of racial job quotas. Tepid conservative supporters and worried business groups, moreover, say they are against any law that could draw more civil rights claims into court. "This is a turning point, a defining moment in the Bush presidency," says Ralph Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, one of the principal...
Americans delight in making private moments public. Witness the success of America's Funniest Home Videos, which has been called "the hottest show on TV." But the succession of gags and goofs surrounding birthdays and family outings is tepid fare compared with the truly incendiary movies viewers are making for home consumption only. The subject? Their sex lives. Propping their camcorders and dropping their inhibitions, more and more couples are videotaping their closest encounters. Rob Lowe, it seems, is not alone...
What has most dismayed many New Yorkers is the tepid response of the city's leaders to the surge of mayhem. Like everyone else in New York, Mayor David Dinkins and his handpicked police commissioner, Lee Brown, seem at a loss for remedies to the worst crime wave to hit the city in a decade. "New York is in desperate need of leadership," says Moss, "and it simply isn't there." A TIME/CNN poll of New Yorkers taken during this summer's rash of killings showed that only 47% approved of Dinkins' performance, and an equal number believed...
...rail rides are luxurious. On Amtrak, the national line, the amenities are fewer and the service spottier. The food may be microwaved mediocrity. In the aging coaches, the decor runs to implausible orange and tepid yellows, the odor is museum quality. A $274 sleeping compartment on Amtrak's Cardinal, from Chicago to New York, manages ingeniously -- and torturously -- to cram sink, toilet, passenger seat, closet, water cooler, trash can, storage compartment and shoe locker into a space about...