Word: ordering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...media: for example, network promos plugging websites; TV shows syndicated to sister stations. And with broadband Internet access looming, media companies feel compelled to lock up as much brand-name content and distribution as possible so they will have product and expertise ready for the digital age. "In order for these big companies to stay competitive, they have to do that," says producer Jerry Bruckheimer. "Warner has had success with the WB, Fox has their network, and now Paramount has theirs...
Then there's the ebbing power of ads themselves. Why should marketers shell out for tomorrow's Must-See Thursday lineup when digital VCRs like Tivo and Replay will let viewers order up any show, anytime--and effortlessly skip ads once they do? The future belongs to the customizable, one-to-one marketing software that e-commerce types are now inventing...
...that way for 2,000 to 3,000 years. This was a time when the human figure was at the center of art. When people asked, 'Who are we? What is death?' These people came to grips with death by cherishing life, by transforming human figures into stone in order to preserve them forever." The show moves to Toronto in February...
...necessary to have finished the first two Harry Potters before beginning The Prisoner of Azkaban, but it's a good idea just the same. Reading the books in proper order conveys a comforting sense of familiarity. Yep, the crenelated towers of Hogwarts look just the same as they did last year. And why not? The school is more than 1,000 years old. The academic and athletic competitions among the four Hogwarts residence houses--Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw--remain as spirited as before. All the students are still mad about Quidditch, a hectic sport involving six goals, four moving...
...such fun to write," Rowling says of the first Harry Potter book. "They still are incredibly fun to write." She lives comfortably but not lavishly in Edinburgh with her daughter Jessie, 6, fending off as many outside demands on her time as she can in order to keep writing. She was completely unprepared for, and doesn't much like, all the press attention that has been mounting since she became a best-selling first novelist. During some early interviews, she mentioned that her beginning work on the Harry Potter books corresponded briefly with a bad patch in her personal life...