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...jungles of South America in search of a lost city and hidden emeralds. Infocom, the Cambridge-based software company that pioneered interactive fiction, has released an electronic version of Douglas Adams' popular novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ($39.95), which last week jumped to No. 1 on Billboard's list of top computer software...
Slim pickings indeed. On every other front, the success of the project continues to be phenomenal. We Are the World, currently No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, is the fastest-climbing single of the decade, and the biggest seller in the history of Columbia Records. To date, at least 4 million copies have been snapped up and often passed along. "People buy three, four, even five at a time," says Mark Tindle, marketing director of a Dallas distributor. "It's their way of giving to charity." The We Are the World album debuted this week...
...mysterioso rhetoric to voyeurism. One moment Clemente is quoting poses from Giulio Romano's illustrations to Aretino to Indian miniatures (he spends part of each year painting near Madras); the next, copying a spiral staircase out of Mario Praz's Illustrated History of Furnishing; and after that, doing a billboard-size head of Grace Jones with skulls for teeth...
...capture the elusive youth market, Orion provided MTV with an Amadeus video; it consists of excerpts from the movie intercut with clips of 27 rock stars: Mozart meets Michael Jackson. In addition to the music video, the sound-track album is No. 1 on Billboard magazine's classical-albums list; it even has a place on the pop charts...
...they expect to arrest more policemen as the search widens. In Washington on Friday, Mexican Attorney General Sergio Garcia Ramirez met with Edwin Meese, his U.S. counterpart, on future joint drug-control operations. Meanwhile, on Highway 111 near Camarena's home in the California town of Calexico, a billboard put up by his friends carried a dire message for those who are thinking of crossing the border...