Word: du
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whole line of film products. A twelve-exposure cassette of Kodacolor II, for example, went from $1.86 to $2.15, and a 36-picture roll of Kodachrome slides jumped from $4.40 to $5.29. The steepest increases were for graphic arts films and photo typesetting paper used by newspapers. Du Pont, a manufacturer of X-ray and industrial films, has raised its prices by as much as 80% in the past year. Polaroid boosted prices 6% earlier this month and said it was considering further increases. Polaroid is fortunate because its instant film uses less silver than other companies' conventional film...
...tell you the exact margin," James Thurber wrote in one of his most celebrated diversions. "But . . . you could look it up." Thurber was writing about baseball, specifically, about a game in which a sawed-off number named Pearl du Monville - all 35 inches of him - rallies a flagging team and pushes them on toward the pennant. There are many sources to check sports stats, but for the even woollier recreation of rock 'n' roll, the research pickings have been slim. The Rolling Stone Record Guide (Random House/Rolling Stone Press; $19.95 hard cover, $8.95 in paper) is a lively...
Stravinsky, Le Sacre du Printemps (Columbia, 1970). Under the baton of that red-blooded logician, Pierre Boulez, all is rite in Stravinsky's polysavage modern classic...