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...executive says the company lost $27 million. Another says, "Talk was a constant distraction. Harvey wanted it to succeed as a magazine and financially, and every day was another problem." For a while, he seemed to lose interest in film-festival acquisitions. Instead of doing what he does best--ferret out small, arty indie films and promote them to the moon--he produced a list of teen movies that were safe (She's All That grossed $63 million domestically) but to varying degrees dreadful (Get Over It made just $12 million...
...those thousands of works, to which Klee gave code numbers indicating their date and price range and his opinion of their quality, there is hardly one that has any discernible sexual content at all, no secret genitals or nipples that even the dirtiest-minded brat could ferret out. This has always helped to make him a great favorite with worried modernist parents and ensured that reproductions of his work, such as They're Biting, 1920, outnumber even those of Rousseau's jungle scenes in the nurseries of the West as unbudgeable classics of childhood...
...JONATHAN LIVINGSTON FERRET...
...release of Richard Bach's "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" marked a true publishing phenomenon; 32 million copies have been sold in 39 languages. Now Bach is back, working on an unlikely new series of books called "The Ferret Chronicles," starring a band of "intelligent, pacifist ferrets who live and work in a world alongside of their human counterparts." The first two installments, "Rescue Ferrets at Sea" and "Air Ferrets Aloft" will be published on June 25. Will his readers find skunks' furry first cousins as appealing as seagulls? Stay tuned...
...likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like to be called “assistants,” not “graders”—you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase...