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...over $4.5 million, while Irish giants U2 generated ticket sales of around $300 million from the 110 dates they played in 2005 ensuring, even after hefty production costs, a healthy cut for the promoters, management and venues. For the mega-acts, concerts are now the horse driving the CD cart. In a paper by Princeton economist Alan Krueger and grad student Marie Connolly called Rockonomics: The Economics of Popular Music, the writers found that in the U.S., "Only four of the top 35 income earners made more money from recordings than live concerts...
...were gypsies, Sooni and I. two sisters in saris surrounded by tuxedoed strangers. But instead of taking our Banjara bullock cart to the nearest water hole, we were in a limo en route to the Oscars, where our first film, Salaam Bombay!, was nominated as Best Foreign Language Film. It was 1989, before private media exploded in India, before the government even recognized filmmaking as a legitimate industry. Armed with just good wishes and some telegrams from family and friends, we spent a riotous few days in the luxury of the Beverly Wilshire, being taken to lunch by Billy Wilder...
...merely a reflection of the conditions around him, colored by his own personality.“Others, however, strongly support Hume’s greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely a problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides.”Just exactly what the equivocator’s answer has to do with the actual question...
Inspiration comes from surprising sources: amusement parks (there are benches for fatigued shoppers and touch screens for lost ones); New York City (a nut cart offers a plethora of fresh roasted nuts in exotic, non--New York flavors like chili lemon); even stores like Best Buy (which has lent technological inspiration). And "we're totally impressed with the Apple store," Gallo says...
Malcolm X saves a minister and his wife by ramming a sandwich cart into a group of white soldiers. So begins Kevin Baker’s last masterful installment of his “City of Fire” trilogy, “Strivers...