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...individual culture. Ask the music-biz professionals, if you can talk them off the ledges outside their offices. Album sales were down more than 5% from 2002's already dismal results, thanks largely to illegal music downloading. Legitimate online sellers like iTunes threaten to kill the album, the format that made entertainers into auteurs in the rock era, and to usher in the era of every man his own mix master. The movie industry has not been as badly hit by piracy--yet--but it went through a summer of surefire hits (Hulk, the Tomb Raider and Charlie's Angels...
...importance of a Web page based not on a simple keyword search but on how many and what kinds of websites link to that Web page. Their approach delivered search results that creamed the competition's, and it served them up in a simple, quick-loading, no-frills format. It was a stone-cold category killer. Brin and Page called their search engine Google. "It was fun, it was short, it was reasonably easy to spell," Page remembers. "We like doing big things, and googol [the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros] is a huge number...
...Garofalo, Bob Odenkirk, Andy Dick and others--give them cameras and a network budget, and what do you get? The lowest-rated show of the 1992-93 TV season--and a classic of sketch comedy. The Ben Stiller Show was an attempt to reclaim Saturday Night Live's creaky format for the kids. But it reflected a Gen X ambivalence about youth culture as a marketing concept, as in "The Grungies," a sketch about a Seattle grunge band modeled on the prefab '60s act the Monkees. ("We're not trying to be friendly/We just want money and fame/We...
...store displays 43. ___ Cologne 45. “The Open Window” writer 46. Virgil epic 47. Subject for a 1967 58-Across made by 17-Across 52. Knocked for a loop 53. Finale 54. Finale, phoenetically speaking 57. Punishment for a naughty kid, maybe 58. Format in which 17-Across did most of his artwork 62. Shipping weight that’s not included 63. Hand cream ingredient 64. Dalai Lama’s land 65. 2003 AL MVP winner, for short 66. When tripled, a liar’s policy 67. Eye sores...
Mani said a debate was not the best format to illustrate Byrd’s leadership qualities. Later, Byrd himself admitted that he “felt out of his arena...