November 6, 1992

End of Cipollone Smoking Suit A major suit against the tobacco industry was dropped; some lawyers said it was because the case was too expensive to continue. Page B1. Exodus From Haiti Resumes The number of Haitians trying to reach the U.S. in boats has risen again, perhaps because of a pending change in the White House. Page A3. Rise in Subway Ridership After declining for 32 months, subway ridership in New York has increased for three months -- possibly an early sign of an economic upturn. Page B1. Big Changes for Macy R. H. Macy brought out an ambitious plan to get out of bankruptcy by profoundly changing the way it conducts its business. Page D1. Fischer Wins Chess Series Twenty years after beating Boris Spassky, Bobby Fischer has done it again, 10 games to 5. Page C27. Open Season on the Bulls Who can dethrone the Chicago Bulls? Answers start tonight as the N.B.A.'s 47th season gets under way. Page B9.

Sears, Roebuck & Company won a battle yesterday in its efforts to expand its credit card business by issuing Visa cards, when a Federal court jury in Salt Lake City ruled that Visa U.S.A. was violating antitrust laws by excluding Sears. The lawsuit charging antitrust violations was filed by Dean Witter Financial Services, a unit of Sears that issues the Discover Card but wants to issue Visa cards as well.

"NO one can see what Jennifer saw," intones an announcer, as Uma Thurman glides across the screen. "No one can imagine what Jennifer felt." Now it just so happens that Ms. Thurman plays Helena, not Jennifer, in "Jennifer 8," the thriller whose trailer we are discussing. And Jennifer's thoughts and feelings are rather beside the point, since Jennifer is a never-seen character who is dead. Furthermore, this trailer's two-minute intimation of a steamy, suspenseful crime drama is a lot more feverish than the actual two-hour-and-seven-minute "Jennifer 8" (review on C6) happens to be. Never mind: when it comes to trailers (movie parlance for coming attractions), accuracy is not the issue. Salesmanship is, and the onset of the Christmas movie season finds the hard sell in full flower. Fierce seasonal competition forces trailer makers to cram as many big moments as possible into very brief promotional vehicles, all of them competing for an audience that is bound to be suspicious after such an uninspired movie year. Outrageous claims, misleading images, false promises, seductive little lies -- did anyone think these things were now behind us? Election Day may be over, but the Christmas blitz has only just begun.

AT the start of a magical program that CBS broadcast on Jan. 30, 1960, Leonard Bernstein led the New York Philharmonic in the opening of the Beethoven "Eroica" Symphony. The reading was brisk, agitated and crackling with drama, but after 36 bars, Bernstein stopped, turned to the camera and asked his audience to think of the performance as "the interpretation of Maestro A." Then he conducted an alternative, the carefully shaped, velvety, lyrical reading favored by Maestro Z. "Now," Bernstein asked, "how can these two performances be so different?" And for the next 50 minutes, with the collaboration of Glenn Gould, Eileen Farrell and Igor Stravinsky, he gave his viewers an easily grasped but sophisticated and sometimes provocative lesson in how musical interpretation works.

For Ivan F. Boesky, the price of insider trading in the early 1980's just went up by 50 percent. Mr. Boesky, the former arbitrager who has already paid $100 million in penalties to the Government, added on another $50 million yesterday in settling a lawsuit brought by the Maxus Energy Corporation, an oil company that said it had been injured by the illegal trading during a 1983 acquisition.