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...online and proceeded to place an order over the phone for a Takamine guitar. More orders flooded in. "We realized people liked sitting on the computer buying things, and that's what got us to go big time," says Spremulli. He invested $3,900 with Web consultant Blacksheep blacksheep3d.com and two years ago set up www.norwalk music.com The website, which gives customers full credit-card access and calculates shipping and taxes, now generates 26% of the company's $1.5 million in annual sales and caters to customers as far away as Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Booting Up Your Business | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...feel like some misplaced Joan of Arc...oh God give me something, give me something to give, a reason to live, set me free...I don't need your fuckin SHIT!....I HAVE NOT SOLD MYSELF TO GOD BABY WAS A BLACKSHEEP-BABYWASAWHORE! BABY GOT BIGERRNBIGGERNBIGGA! BABY GET SOMETHIN' BABEEGETMORE--BABYBABEE BEEBEE WAS A ROCKNROLLNIGGA! [outside is society a waitin' for me] are you ready to be heard...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Street Symbolist Finds Her Ark | 5/8/1979 | See Source »

...University has never smiled on the mediums of popular entertainment. Throughout its history, the Corporation treated theatricals as the blacksheep of extracurricular activities. And with the growth of commercial broadcasts, the Administration's disdain entered this field with the rule that: "No organization shall be allowed to appear on a commercially sponsored radio or TV program." While theatrical stock has risen this year, the ban on radio and television continues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Broadcast Ban | 4/21/1954 | See Source »

Died. Theresa Capone, 85, mother of eight children, including three blacksheep -Matt, Ralph and Al; in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 8, 1952 | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...marries the inventor whose children she has helped to rear. They resent the marriage; when the inventor dies, leaving all his money to his wife, they suggest that she has murdered him with an overdose of strychnine. The only member of the brood who defends her is a blacksheep named Ronnie (Richard Cromwell) who is killed while flying to the trial in which the old nurse is acquitted. She gives her traducers the money she has inherited and is last seen as a menial again, in service with another family, the smallest member of which has just misbehaved himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Greeks had a Word for Them | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

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