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...ballad for parlous times: sexy but hygienic, passionate but never lustful. Radio programmers grumbled at Epic's choice of a low-profile make-out tune for the album's first single. None of this got in the way of the song, however: it is now No. 2 on the Billboard chart...
What is disturbing is that the desire for billboard morality, and its clear, if mythic, delineations between right and wrong, appears as firmly in the minds of the D.A's as it does in the souls of moviegoers...
...singer a Grammy and seven American Music Awards. And now, as she kicks off a summer-long tour of 45 concerts, she has done it again. Her new collection, Whitney, made pop-music history as the first album by a female singer to debut at No. 1 on Billboard's pop chart. The album's first single, I Wanna Dance with Somebody, scampered to the top of eight different Billboard hit lists, from Adult Contemporary to Crossover and from West Germany to Australia. Her "birth-to-death demographics" attract nearly every music listener and a few who just watch...
...Mammoth billboard images of the kind that frequently adorn Manhattan's Times Square have been a frustrating market niche for the $1.3 billion outdoor advertising industry. The huge, hand-painted icons often take a month to produce, sometimes depict faces inaccurately, and can be awkward to move. But now two California manufacturers have shown that turning out big pictures can be child's play. Los Angeles-based Metromedia Technologies uses computers to convert photos or other artwork into billboards up to 17 ft. by 54 ft. within just six hours. Another company, Torrance-based Computer Image Systems, is creating...
...families accustomed to better things share sausages and bread, using newspapers as picnic tablecloths. With rail traffic cut to 40% of normal, queues form behind charter-bus drivers showing their destinations on cardboard signs and shouting out the departure times. In Lyons's Part Dieu station, an illuminated advertising billboard shows a streaking orange superspeed train and carries the slogan that with the national French railway EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE! Some irate, but erudite passenger has scrawled across the sign in Latin "Mirabile Dictu!" (Strange...