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...ensuing two-hundred-word editorial could have been penned by a nineteenth-century robber baron. Also, in case you were wondering: “Guess what happens when courts, not legislators, make laws? There’s a backlash. Duh.” Don’t have a cow...
Moreover, NBC is still the cash cow of a media powerhouse that should provide its parent, General Electric, with nearly $2.5 billion in profits this year. Still, "the playing field has considerably leveled," says Leland Westerfield, a media analyst at the investment firm Harris Nesbitt. "This is NBC's first year of rebuilding, and the appearance of anything less than dominance is considered defeat...
...against Betamax all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled against the movie industry and helped establish the right of fair-use copying. We all know what happened to the VCR: not long after that defeat, the studios discovered that tape rentals were even more of a cash cow than movie tickets...
...debut last week, according to Cardullo, about 25 people have signed on.“I’m going to take students’ money but I’m going to give something [back],” Cardullo said. “Harvard is a monstrous cash cow...[Crimson Cash] takes hundreds of thousands of dollars in student money...
...imagination to remake it into something entirely his own. For one thing, it's funny. Nearly every page has some bit of business, like when Fone's hat spontaneously combusts upon catching Thorn preparing for a bath. Smith also puts together clever set pieces, such as the Great Cow Race, where Phoney introduces a "mystery cow" - actually Smiley in a costume - convincing the locals to go for this sucker bet over the favorite: Gran'ma Ben(!). The final race turns into a raucously funny slapstick worthy of a classic Chuck Jones cartoon. "Bone" keeps the comic in comix, without being...