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...movie star in their lifetime can now become one after their death with a videotaped will. For $350, Royal Color Portraits Inc. of Massapequa and Albany, N. Y., will record up to 15 minutes of an individual's reciting his or her last will and testament. The tape can then be played back after the person has died. The service, called Posterity Pix, includes a scriptwriter and makeup...
FILM: "Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse"; GSU, Rm. 314; Wednesday...
...private beach. Many of the dead had been badly battered and their clothes shredded by the pounding surf. One woman clutched a fist ful of sand. A man had his shirt twisted around his neck. Among the meager belongings washed up on the beach: a copy of the New Testament, wrapped in plastic to protect it from the water. It was the worst such accident since some 50,000 illegal immigrants from the poverty-stricken Caribbean nation began arriving on U.S. shores ten years ago. "It's the kind of thing that was waiting to happen," said Florida Governor...
What emerges from these insights to the business of acquisition is a warped success ethic intrinsic to collecting. A man's measure becomes the sum of his acquisitions. A piece of art becomes nothing more than a trophy at the end of the race, a testament of the winner's endurance. Hoving's protests to the contrary, the book chronicles the sublimation of his love for art to the grander passion of the hunt. His goals are stated clearly in the diary entry he reproduces from the beginning of his career: "I want nothing more than success. Success, adulation--notice...
...kindness," he rather astonishingly asserts that "on the whole scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us." For Snow the agonizing irony is that these saintly men-Rutherford, "bored" by money; Bohr, "simply and genuinely kind"; Einstein, not only looking but be having like an Old Testament prophet-should end up being even indirectly responsible for Hiroshima...