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There are also powerful profits to be made from quality merchandise featuring barnyard critters. Neither company discloses itemized financial records, but industry analysts estimate that last year the stores' revenue was $465 million for Disney, $380 million for Warner. These are robust figures; they amount to 54% of Disney's total domestic box-office take and 39% of Warner's. Not bad for a fledgling industry where the flop factor is reduced and the stars aren't paid $10 million a picture...
...years as a GM troubleshooter in posts all over the world. He always refused to join a country club, instead preferring to build roads and dig wells on his 185-acre Montana spread. He seldom hid his differences with GM's top brass, often phrasing his protests in barnyard epithets. Last year, when he found himself sidelined in a staff job, the restless Rock prepared to take one of GM's early-retirement packages...
...late Monday evening, the conventionatmosphere had become a little bit like the linein front of a Boston nightclub. The crowd wasimpatient. A few would-be ralliers started tomoo, and the barnyard mimicry started to spreadthrough the hundreds of young Republicans waitingto get on the floor...
Hepburn calls Norah, her housekeeper who got the job because she did not sit until Hepburn did, with a loud grunt of the sort not heard outside a barnyard or a soccer match. "Eeuuuuuunhhhh!" A deep breath and another grunt. "Why," Hepburn turns to confide in me, "do they only hear you the second time...
...things awry. Chanticleer has forgotten to crow, and somehow the sun has risen any way. Ridiculed by his barnyard friends, the frustrated fowl voyages to "The city" in search of a higher fame and fortune. He aspires to be a singer...