Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...publisher's attention, of course. The fact that an African-American author was writing about vivid characters with whom many black women could identify had the added effect of proving to booksellers that there is a sizable, previously ignored market for semisoapy black fiction--just as the $67 million gross for last year's film version of Exhale proved there is a sizable market for semisoapy black movies...
...wasn't perfect. And now we know her taste wasn't either. In fact, some of the items sold last week reflect an amazing and heartening level of vulgarity. The big Onassis diamond that went for $2,587,500 is a truly gross piece of work, and I am not saying that only because I can't have...
...boasts a Foosball table--the perfect just-a-guy, have-a-beer, I-love-you-man touch). But don't let the downscale bonhomie deceive you; the band is a corporate money machine. Cracked Rear View cost around $200,000 to make and generated more than $100 million in gross revenues for Atlantic Records, Hootie's label (owned, it should be noted, by Time Warner, which owns TIME...
...people who heard rumors they would or would not believe in the context of raging war and burning cities. After all, the regime went to extraordinary lengths to disguise what was going on, apparently afraid of what the popular reaction would be. To me, Goldhagen is guilty of a gross generalization no historian should indulge in. HENNING BISCHOF Mannheim, Germany Via E-mail...
...could amount to a Lion King's ransom, because Katzenberg's definition of profits includes much more than income from movie tickets. "By way of example," says the suit, "in 1994 Disney's video re-release of Snow White, an animated feature first released over 50 years earlier, generated gross revenues of some $800 million and profit of over $500 million...