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...SERVICE (HBO) An old-school TV anchorman (Paul Dooley) finds himself teamed with a shallow New Wave co-host (Griffin Dunne). Howard Korder's script for this made-for-cable movie neatly skewered television, but also located the tragedy beneath the tackiness...
...have dozed along contentedly almost since Edwardian times are merging or being snapped up by marauding U.S., Japanese or French financial institutions. Pinstripe City men who have known each other since Oxford or Cambridge days are rubbing shoulders with rough-and-tumble stock traders who sport little of the old-school polish but plenty of the street savvy that has suddenly become worth unheard-of six-figure salaries. Unable to contain the activity, the City is bursting at the seams, as rapidly expanding investment houses sprawl farther along the Thames into London's formerly dreary docklands...
Baseball on a pair of ping-pong courts. Jackrabbit base-stealers, high-flying infielders and plastic ground. And two old-school, real ballplayers...
DIED. Ellsworth Bunker, 90, patrician, unflappable diplomat under seven Presidents, who epitomized the old-school foreign service officer during his many key assignments; in Brattleboro, Vt. A graduate of Yale, Bunker was an executive in the sugar industry for 35 years before President Truman named him to be Ambassador to Juan Perón's Argentina in 1951; he was later posted to Italy, India and Nepal. Bunker helped avert a war between The Netherlands and Indonesia in 1962, and three years later mediated between factions in the Dominican Republic. Called from retirement and sent to Viet...
...old-school editor steps down, leaving behind a better paper...