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...must take more than a recession to dampen demand for English rhubarb and fig preserves or reindeer meatballs from Norway. Though inflation has forced supermarket shoppers to cut corners and frantically clip coupons, gourmet food shops that cater to the sophisticated palate have never been busier...
...called "Big 6" record companies (CBS, WEA, Polygram, EMI/Capitol, RCA and MCA) control the distribution of 85 per cent of the records released in America and the radio air-waves still cater to their tried-and-true favorites plus the occasional newcomers. Yet the two most influential musical forces of the late Seventies, Disco and Punk-New Wave, developed outside of established channels, Disco, originally the province of Latinos and gays, was wholeheartedly embraced by the industry, but the New Wave has spawned an alternative, underground network of small record labels, distributors, clubs and publications convinced that the music business...
...downright appalling, many critics would say. The thrill shows appeal and cater to the viewers' infantile instincts. Film Professor Richard Sklar of New York University compares these programs to a circus sideshow. "The grotesque aspects of popular culture-burlesque, vaudeville variety and pulp magazines-are finding expression on TV today. Television does not go out on a limb; it trails what is happening in society." Some of the toughest condemnations of the shows come from broadcasters. Morley Safer of 60 Minutes blasts such programming as "the worst brew of bad taste yet concocted by the network witches...
...rejects the notion that a secretary is merely an extension of her boss--"to cater to his personal whims and perform his personal errands." But for all its concern with office relationships, the organization's primary focus is economic--it advocates what Snyder terms a doctrine of "comparable worth...
...GUCCIONE peddles pornography for the chic. As publisher of Penthouse, he doesn't cater to a readership comprised only of horny old men or 14-year-old boys discovering "soap." His buyers-young and sophisticated, pseudo-intellectual and self-consciously stylish-enjoy Guccione's Thinking Man's Porn: glossy photographs of beautiful women masturbating over captions that say something like "My interests are sky-diving and neuro-surgery and I need a gentle, intelligent man who knows how to make it!" With this audience in mind, Guccione set out to make movies, and Caligula, his first cinematic effort, is like...