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...craze for recorded literature has given work to yet another needy group: agents. "Everyone is 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...
...dawning there were isolated stragglers, determinedly circling suburban high school tracks or pacing through city parks. Most Americans did not suppose these were the harbingers of a U.S. craze. But by the end of the 1970s joggers were everywhere, all seemingly in training for the marathon. Other citizens, plunging into alternate activities, were equally fervid. Swimmers boasted of laps completed, cyclists of long-distance touring, and weight lifters of pounds pressed. Today Americans live in a land where fit is proper. Strut your sweat. The majority, who remain woefully unfit, are now the ones who feel out of step; shamefacedly...
Kansas City is the center of the sticky craze, and the pioneer there is the T.J. Cinnamons Bakery, opened in the Ward Parkway Shopping Center in January 1985. T.J.'s workers shaped the ball of dough (called by some a brain) into buns and baked them nine to a pan in full view of the public. The proud creators were Ted and Joyce (thereby the initials T.J.) Rice, he a television cameraman and she an elementary-school teacher. After tireless testings of their recipe on friends, they arrived at the right formula. "I thought it should have a high center...
Still, it is tempting to poke around, especially among the new features that appear with dizzying regularity. For example, during the height of the comet craze, CompuServe users could type GO HALLEY and shop electronically for comet locator maps, reading lists, Halley hats and a T shirt emblazoned with HEAVENLY BODY OF THE YEAR. They could also find directions to prime U.S. viewing spots, sign up for comet-watching ocean cruises, enter weekly comet . trivia quizzes and participate with dozens of other Halley's addicts in an onscreen round-table discussion of comet news and lore...
Students aren't the ones snapping up the latest technology craze, however; graduate students and professors are laying down $1539 and gobbling up Apple's new, more powerful machine, Terp said...