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...governance of the country. Although Chernomyrdin said Yeltsin will still make all major decisions, the ministries of Defense, Foreign Affairs, the Interior and Security have been reporting to Chernomyrdin. At week's end, Yeltsin appeared for less than a minute on Russian television, looking wan and puffy and slurring his speech. He is scheduled to remain in the hospital until the end of the month...
...most part, the increased competition, the need to stand out in an electronic glut, has kept producers from complacently cranking out the kind of wan, homogenized fare that characterized TV seasons past--and can still be enjoyed on Nick at Nite if one is so inclined. (But is there honestly any reason beyond nostalgia, graduate theses in popular culture or a lingering taste for boyhood erotica for anyone to watch the painfully lame Bewitched or I Dream of Jeannie?) The easygoing suburban blandness that Nick at Nite dines out on was owing to the fact that network TV was once...
...people. Broadway is still big business; it pumps $2.3 billion annually into the New York City economy. And musicals are still the big ticket ($75 now for some shows). Yet the Great White Way has never been so wan. Last season it had just one new show with new tunes: Sunset Blvd., the sort of megalomusical that is a killer to reproduce in a small theater. The place is a wasteland, and not just for New York visitors. Local theaters hoping to put on a show--with a plot, pretty songs and, please, no helicopters--look to Broadway in vain...
...first, the glossy oil painting looked glamorous, with the shiny silver coffee pots in the bar and the clean lines and colors. But as I peered through six people to look more closely, it seemed not glitzy, but wan and bleak. The man and woman seemed bored with life and with each other. Their hands touched only barely, as if in an afterthought...
...glamorously seedy plot of David Ramus' new thriller, Thief of Light (HarperCollins; 291 pages; $23), that has the publishing world abuzz. It is the eerie similarity between the fictional story and that of the author. Ramus, a wan Alec Baldwin look-alike, is a first-time novelist with a potential best seller in his future, and also a possible prison sentence. Like his protagonist, in the '80s he was an art dealer with a fondness for heroin. By the '90s he had overcome his drug problems, but questionable business dealings left him with a $4 million debt and allegations...