Word: briskness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaving the story unprotected. Thus they reluctantly agreed to let Ripley, whose own "big, fat, serious historicals" (Charleston, New Orleans Legacy) have fared well on the moonlight-and- magnolia circuit, write a sequel. Last week, with two chapters of the new GWTW written, major publishers kicked off a brisk bidding war. The hardcover rights could fetch as much as $6 million...
...tiny frames. But after selling 25 million disc cameras since 1982, Kodak said last week that it has suspended production. While the company has promised to keep making film for the cameras, photo experts believe Kodak is ditching the disc design for good. Sales of the cameras, while brisk at first, slumped to fewer than 2 million last year. The disc's fatal flaw is its minuscule negatives, which tend to produce grainy snapshots. That handicap has become even more glaring with the arrival of simple and inexpensive 35-mm cameras...
...about music all the time," says Lloyd Webber. His basic shyness and his air of indifference to most other subjects make him seem brusque and aloof. "Andrew is a very determined person, and he's very competitive," says his mother. "He has a one-track mind. He has a brisk manner and can be offhand. He has his difficult side -- he has a temper and terrific swings of mood...
That assertion now has an unintended irony in light of the three authors' public success. Last Intellectuals is in its second printing, and while it has not yet matched Bloom's and Hirsch's sales, it is a brisk seller and has sparked spirited debate over its thesis. America, Jacoby says, is producing no young crop of heirs to the great public writer-thinkers like H.L. Mencken and Thorstein Veblen, whose works set directions and standards 60 and 70 years ago. Nor, he notes, have successors emerged for the current senior generation of broad-gauge university scholars like David Riesman...
Despite the favorable tax climate, only a handful of U.S. pharmaceutical firms have set up factories on the island. American enrollment at Grenada's medical school is on the rise after students were evacuated from the island in 1983. But the T-shirt industry, which flourished with brisk sales to U.S. service members, has waned since their departure in 1985. The prospect of increased tourism appears bleak. Grenada's twelve hotels remain half empty during peak season. Cruise ships make regular stops, but the mad dashes of passengers through gift shops are hardly a permanent boon to the economy. Vendors...