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...fourth guy says, "All movies are comic books these days. Let's do more movies based on comic books!" Not just Batman & Robin and Men in Black but also two August releases, Spawn and Steel, are comic book-inspired. This junk-culture trend must please the kids in the Development departments; no more novels to read, with all those annoying words...
...press of a key and--bang!--the item would have been broadcast to the 60,000 Internet users who receive his breathless E-mail bulletins (and to tens of thousands more who visit his Website). There's nothing an avid Drudgester likes more than watching the king of new junk media outscoop the scoopers...
...colleague Ann Clurman blame Xers' woes on their parents: "Forget what the idealistic boomers intended, Xers say, and look instead at what they actually did: divorce. Latchkey kids. Homelessness. Soaring national debt. Bankrupt Social Security. Holes in the ozone layer. Crack. Downsizing and layoffs. Urban deterioration. Gangs. Junk bonds...
...customers? Funny thing: the customers are still reasonably happy--22 million of them show up every day--and they'll gladly take a bargain where they can get one. But McDonald's biggest problem is that customers are, increasingly, just as happy to go elsewhere for their junk-food fix: to Burger King for arguably better burgers, to Wendy's for better variety, to Starbucks and Einstein Bros. for better coffee and bagels in the morning, and to Boston Market or any number of gussied-up supermarkets for dinner. Says Greenberg: "I really believe our restaurants are running better today...
...They would camp out in the library and really junk up on caffeine," Sanborne says. "People would stake out their table in Hilles and get really territorial. Then I would become envious of those who got the really nice tables and they would have to defend them...