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...Pamela: or Virtue Rewarded was published in 1740. But A Kiss From Satan was written this year and, even in the midst of a pornography boom, it and similar well-scrubbed (though timidly suggestive) paperbacks for women are spinning a new fortune for a Toronto-based publisher, Harlequin Enterprises. The firm's profits have more than tripled every year since 1970, and now stand at $1.6 million on revenues of $15 million. Harlequin, which has editorial offices in London, has well over 600 gloppy melodramas (Never to Love, Moon Over the Alps, Desert Nurse) in print, some...
Having thus swept the ladies off their feet, Harlequin, as insatiable as any Don Juan, has now come up with a marketing approach that promises even further sales. On the premise that the romantic melodramas are addictive, President W. Lawrence Heisey, a 43-year-old Harvard Business School graduate, is offering 2,000,000 copies of a single title, Dark Star, for only 15? each. The plot: prim secretary competes with dusky movie starlet for affections of compelling Latin. Dealers across the U.S. are getting the book free; it would normally command about 36? wholesale, 60? retail...
AGASSIZ THEATER. New England Chamber Opera: Harlequin--Busoni and Philemon and Baucis--Gounod, Jan. 27, 8:30, $2 (students) $3 (general...
...guitars; Cubist fragments, staccato rhythms in line and space, the illusion of projected sound created by the protruding opening in his "Guitar" sculpture. Blazing color and musical notes, his "Three Musicians" link abstract shape to abstract shape to become the instruments they are holding, while his multi-planar "Harlequin" dances jerkily to the tune of bright diamonds and squares...
...long episodic, director-choreographer Voight Kempson has injected a good deal of energy and brought off some splendid dance routines. The second-act kickline ("The Don't Tread-on-Me-Blues"--composer Stephen Sondheim seem's to have been the evening's guiding light) is a harlequin-outfitted Busby Berkely spectacular which has nothing at all to do with the plot and is probably all the better for it. As proper compliment to the direction, Franco Colavecchia has done a swell job of set design--his complicated arrangement of backdrops and scrims are like a series of Saul Steinberg...