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Would-be cosmonauts have plenty of time to ponder the far-out trip: the % drawing is set for next December, and the flight may not occur until 1993. Texas officials, however, have begun an investigation to determine whether the conditions of the offer amounted to a lottery rather than a sweepstakes. If so, it would violate state law and presumably be canceled long before the countdown begins...
Falsettoland The conclusion of composer-lyricist William Finn's brilliant minimalist trilogy about a man's struggle for sexual identity blends the same style of daffy Manhattan humor (about nouvelle kosher cuisine, opulent bar mitzvah parties and "the lesbians from next door") with the newfound and baffling pain of AIDS...
...such things as an alleged CIA plot to unite national-front movements from the Black to the Baltic Seas into a single anti-Soviet confederation. Soyuz claimed credit for Gorbachev's sacking of the country's liberal Interior Minister last month, and brazenly announced that the Foreign Minister was next on its hit list...
...problem: both channels are losing money. Hoping that two can laugh as cheaply as one, the jousting jokesters disclosed last week that they would merge to form Comedy TV. The new channel, which will draw on programming from both of its parents, should be up and chuckling by early next year...
...tidings will probably be grim at least until the middle of next year, according to the consensus of a panel of five leading economists who gathered in Manhattan this month for a TIME economic forum. "We have a moderate, potentially severe recession on our hands," said Allen Sinai, chief economist for the Boston Co. Economic Advisers. "The economy is showing signs of caving in, almost falling off a cliff, as so often is the case once a full-fledged recession begins." If the conditions seem particularly bleak, he noted, "that is because we are in the heart of the slide...