Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fifth collection of short stories, Alice Munro, 55, continues to buck the genre's fashionable trend toward miniaturization and microplots. Her characters stubbornly refuse to trudge like zombies through brief but nonetheless tedious interludes. They do not act like literary artifacts or wan verbal gestures toward ennui. They behave, instead, as if they had all the time and space imaginable to lead and ponder their complicated lives. Each of the eleven pieces in The Progress of Love seems to contain enough material for a fair-sized novel; Munro's art of compression emphasizes amplitudes rather than economies...
...making a concerted effort to secure audio rights because they can earn considerable income," reports Albert Zuckerman, president of Writers House, Inc. "We just got a $10,000 royalty check for the audio sales of On Wings of Eagles by Ken Follett, and a $35,000 advance for Buck Rodgers' The IBM Way." Producer Linda Morgenstern of Caedmon notes "the scuffle" between agent and publisher for audio rights: "There was such a slim market before, but now everyone recognizes that there is a lot of money to be made...
This vision, too, may be a little far-fetched. Still, says Patrick Gordon, a communications expert at the Yankee Group, the Boston-based high-tech research firm, "the integrated services digital network is not a blue sky, Buck Rogers fantasy. It's already...
...adventurous filmmakers like Ridley Scott continue to buck the trend and spend the bucks on these archaic entertainments. Legend cost about $30 million, runs only 89 minutes in its current form, and had its U.S. release delayed for almost a year before surprising everybody with two consecutive top-grossing weeks. But even with this belated victory, why should Scott have bothered making Legend? Because, of all movie genres, the quest epic is the one most amenable to the artistic dictatorship of studio moviemaking. The fantasy world is not a photocopy of any world present or past; it exists only...
...accordance with the laws of equal representation, this film picks on everyone. Most of the nations of Western Europe, the United States, the leaders of above nations, capitalists. Marxist revolutionaries, Live Aid, and yuppies are among the targets selected. This buck shot method of comedy provides no focus, but throw out enough gags, and some of them are bound to stick...