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...cable, Diller never quite answered one question posed by the ordinary viewers: Can you turn QVC's programming into something approaching mainstream entertainment? After two years -- about the time it took for Diller to start up Fox's first night of network programming -- QVC was still an electronic flea market, selling flashy bracelets one moment and beanbag chairs the next. Clearly, most of Diller's creative energies were directed elsewhere. "When Barry went to QVC," says a business colleague, "he saw this mainly as the platform to do a big, transforming acquisition...
Barely a step above the denizens of the streets are those who haunt Moscow's hard-luck flea markets. At these outdoor bazaars, the bottom of the city's economic food chain -- mainly pensioners who brew "tea" with shredded carrots and can't remember the last time they bought a new scrap of clothing -- peddle their household goods to pay for tomorrow's potatoes. A short stroll from Moscow's Kiev train station, the sidewalks teem with faucets, shower fittings, cartons of milk, boxes of laundry powder, lamps, washbasins, doorknobs, frying pans, toothpaste, glue, string and old pairs of shoes...
...couple of young teenagers wander around, and 30-somethings stand against the back wall, but the crowd consists mainly of Harvard students. Harvard students that is who love rock. Some are dressed conservatively, even nicely, while others sport flea-market/Urban Outfitters styles. Everyone here is relaxed, enjoying the music, letting the rhythm reverberate through their bodies. This is the WHRB "Happy Hour...
...through with a bunch of weird-looking film critics at a special screening of "The Chase" last week: not when a truck-load of corpses spilled onto the highway, creating "mass havoc," not when the heroine "comically" vomited out of her car window; not when Anthony Kiedis and Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers made a dorky cameo; not even when the two protagonists, a kidnapper and his hostage, had sex in a speeding car with thirty cops on their tail. No, it was none of these things; it was when, at the end of the movie...
...anticipation of expanded congressional restrictions. "Brady law? It's a piece of trash," says Lyle Teague, a self-styled arms merchant at the Saxet Gun Show in San Antonio, Texas. "But you want to know something? It's doing wonders for my business." Dealers at the vast Texas flea market posted signs warning, LAST CHANCE TO STOCK UP and THESE GUNS ARE IN THE SENATE BILL -- BUY NOW BEFORE THEY'RE GONE. Black Talon bullets have doubled in price, to $20, since Winchester announced it was suspending manufacture after Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan threatened a 10,000% tax hike...