Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crown Cruises offers a one-day excursion from San Diego to Ensenada, Mexico, for only $75. From New York City, Fantasy Cruises has a four-night trip to Bermuda for $395 and a one-night "cruise to nowhere" that goes out into the Atlantic and back for $85. To attract a broad clientele, Fantasy advertises its voyages on posters on New York subway cars. Other companies feature special cruises to suit individual tastes, including trips with wine-tasting sessions, film festivals, exercise classes and bridge tournaments. In January, Cunard Line will offer a Trivial Pursuit cruise from New York City...
...Soldier's Story in a Negro barracks in 1944, a lot of hopes and anxieties are riding on them. It is one of the black man's burdens: convincing a skeptical Hollywood Establishment that his experiences are worth putting on film and that they will attract an impressive number of moviegoers, black and white...
...biggest hits: Eddie Murphy in Trading Places, Richard Pryor in Superman III and Jennifer Beals in Flashdance. This summer's two out-of-nowhere hits, the rap musical Breakin' and Prince's Purple Rain, suggest that movies with black themes can attract large mixed audiences. And yet these are a few glittering tokens; for most black actors and audiences, roles and role models are scarce. Though blacks constitute about 12% of the U.S. population and account for an estimated 20% of movie tickets sold, only 6.3% of the actors working in films in the two-year period...
...permission, to become a top executive at U.S. News & World Report (circ. 2.1 million). Zuckerman takes over as owner of the newsweekly next month. Editor Hertzberg has also served notice that he is interested in eventually exploring other careers. But Peretz asserts that the magazine will readily attract able executives. Says Peretz: "The one sure thing at this unpredictable magazine is that we will go on being unpredictable...
Last year was the year to "hack" the undergraduate council, Lyss said, but this year its progress is more visible, the main reason he cited for the council's ability to attract contestants...