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...recent tax regulation will be even harder on first novelists, and is certain to curtail lesser-known writers' advances against royalties. The Hollywoodizing of publishing and the boom-or-bust psychology that pervades the industry have made it more difficult to place first novels and nonfiction without mass appeal. The Thor decision can only quicken this trend. Few publishers are likely to take risks on little-known authors without at least a guarantee of a tax break on his unsold books. First printings will be smaller, and second printings may become a rarity for trade books that...
...seems more a well-read humanist with a strong interest in evolutionary theory than a scientist who is well-educated in other fields. He refers in almost every essay to such non-scientists as Odysseus, Rabelais, Shakespeare, George Eliot, Alexander Pope, and even Muhammad Ali as bridges to lesser-known scientists like Richard Goldschmidt, Baron Georges Cuvier, Paul Broca, Randolph Kirkpatrick, and Thomas Henry Huxley...
Ewing collected 24 points and 12 rebounds in the game, despite sitting out much of the second half in foul trouble. Hobbs, a controversial transfer guard, tossed in 14. The lesser-known trio of Kevin Headley, Steven Gittens and Ladon Adair kept the pressure on Worcester with scrappy performances late in the game...
...success but always had plenty of local influence. In the last year, two bands, Gary Numan's Tubeway Army and Mi Sex, have been foisted upon an unknowing and unwilling public in an attempt to sell Ultravox's sound. Both bands at least acknowledge their huge debt to the lesser-known Ultravox, but unfortunately, they borrowed the style and left the substance behind. They wear someone else's clothes but they have no idea how to put them...
...finance, in search of his princess, manages to enter the school--disguised as a girl. The women's academy setting loosely ties the production into the Radcliffe centennial, reportedly one of G & S's reasons for mounting the show this year. Though one of Gilbert's and Sullivan's lesser-known operettas, many scholars consider the score one of the duo's finest...