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...feature to begin. But in the Los Angeles area these past few months, theater screens have been carrying a new kind of trailer: a cinematic twist on the old mail-order-bride pitch. In the clip, titled What Do You Think of My Face?, a man named Marc Halberstadt fills the silver screen. Explains the 36-year-old former furniture salesman, who scraped together $1,200 to produce the film as a gimmick to find a wife: "I wanted to create the most significant mating call in the history of the human race...
...fact, Turner is banking on the loyalty of cable operators as well as viewers, although such allegiance is by no means assured. Says Marc Nathanson, who represents 40 cable systems in California: "I'm wondering if our pocketbooks are going to outweigh our feelings toward the pioneers who took the risks. As for me, I'm supporting old Ted and sticking by his service." Playing on the traditional suspicion between broadcasters and cable people, Turner has launched a direct-mail campaign aimed at arousing cable operators; he enclosed copies of ABC memos counseling local affiliate stations...
...Viktoua net! [Complete victory!] They are going to free you! They have to free you!" Marc Garcia, the Miami radio commentator known as Marcus to the 437 Haitians at Krome Avenue Processing Center who tune in his daily Creole-language broadcasts, was all but shouting the good news into his microphone last week. In Atlanta, a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit had just refused to block a federal district court decision ordering the release "forthwith" of 1,800 Haitian immigrants who have been imprisoned for about a year in 14 U.S. detention camps...
...different critical persuasions. For 250 years after his death, he was dismissed as bizarre or eccentric. He could not draw. Perhaps he was even mad. Then the French, led by dissenters from the academic tradition like Manet, rediscovered him as a great dissenter. Next the German expressionists like Marc and Kandinsky found in him a justification for the distortion of form to express passion rather than mere representation. Finally, the U.S. intelligentsia, just then discovering the provocations of Picasso and Van Gogh as expounded by the Museum of Modern Art in the '30s, discovered in El Greco...
PART OF THE AMERICAN friendliness toward the Haitian government stems from Reagan's wish to establish a military base in Haiti. Ambassador Vernon Walters (former CIA deputy director) has been negotiating for a site on Tortuga Island. Mole St. Nicolas, Gonave Island or Saint Marc Point. Apparently, Duvalier will allow a base in exchange for U S guns and dollars...