Word: bantams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tape deck, and Walkman-style cassette players have become as much a part of the urban landscape as Reeboks and Perrier. Each tape deck and set of earphones represents a potential customer, a statistic that is not lost on Frank Vertuca, associate director of marketing and distribution at Bantam. "A major part of our market is middle class," he finds. These people are "well off, earn a minimum of $35,000 a year, are between the ages of 25 and 54 and are about evenly divided between female and male. A large number of them buy the tapes to listen...
...latest Warner tapes are described by Deutsch as a "new version of old-time radio," complete with scores and sounds. Chaim Potok's The Chosen (Warner), read by Eli Wallach, is augmented by news broadcasts, crowd noises and mood music; Louis L'Amour's A Trail to the West (Bantam) features hoofbeats and gunshots reminiscent of a 1940s Lone Ranger episode...
...Bantam; 326 pages...
...ahead on a good grin, good moves and better hustle. To a generation of comic impressionists, Jimmy Cagney's mannerisms became part of the standard repertoire: the tough-guy, tommy-gun chatter, the feinted jab to convey affection (first aimed at Loretta Young in Taxi) and the square-shouldered bantam-cock strut. Public Enemy, White Heat and his other classic gangster movies traded on what he fondly called "my gutter quality." But in more than 60 films, the last of them a made-for-TV movie that aired in March 1984, Cagney stood a head above any mob of imitators...
...Bantam; 421 pages...