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...lost their appeal, however short they may be on microprocessors. There will apparently never be a shortage of buyers for Crayola crayons, LEGO blocks and roller skates. Indeed, Ohio Art says sales of its Etch A Sketch, now in its 28th year, are up 50% this year. Says Gil Wachsman, president of the 128-store Child World chain: "What we're seeing is people moving toward better quality, and intrinsic to that is better value." For parents who still have closets full of little-used toys from Christmases past, that is the most important consideration...
...feeling of a little more substance in the air." The two U2 collaborations on the record (Testimony and the reactor-hot Sweet Fire of Love) were launched on little more than a wing, a prayer, a guitar riff, a tom-tom beat and a horn chart written by Gil Evans (Miles Davis' collaborator on Sketches of Spain). It is not only talent that makes these songs work, it's a finding of common ground between Robertson and the Dublin boys so sudden and intense that the discovery ignites the songs. U2 squires him into 1987; he gives them heft, antecedents...
News Editor Gilbert Fuchsberg '88 Night Editors Melissa E. Weissberg '85 Marie B. Morris '85 Gil Fuchsberg '88 Thomas J. Winslow '87 Matthew A. Saal '87 Emily M. Bernstein '90 Ross G. Forman '90 Features Heather R. McLeod '90 Susan B. Glasser '90 Photography Yumi E. Ando '88 Peter H. Miller '90 Editorial Michael D. Nolan '88 Sports Colin F. Boyle '90 Alvar J. Mattei '88 Geoffrey H. Simon '88 Copy Editor Theodore D. Chuang...
...airplay given their videos on MTV. One popular band, Journey, last year opted not to produce a video to go with its new album. But when sales lagged, the group released one belatedly, and business promptly picked up. "There's no doubt that its impact has leveled off," says Gil Friesen, president of A&M Records. "But if MTV weren't to survive, someone else would come along and reinvent...
...News Board: Vio Barco '87-'88 of Dudley House and Bogota, Colombia; Andrew J. Bates '90 of Pennypacker Hall and Washington, D.C.; Emily M. Bernstein '90 of Matthews Hall and New York, New York; Katherine E. Bliss '90 of Canaday Hall and Dallas, Texas; Gil Citro '90 of Holworthy Hall and Northbrook, Illinois; Jennifer M. Frey '90 of Holworthy Hall and Alleghany, New York; Terri E. Gerstein '90 of Pennypacker Hall and Cromwell, Connecticut; Julie E. Gibbons '90 of Stoughton Hall and London, England; Susan B. Glasser '90 of Matthews Hall and Montclair, New Jersey; Vindu P. Goel...