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...eccentric Oxford historian whose more than 40 books do include several about the Bard, Rowse, 80, began a tour of the U.S. last week to plug his The Contemporary Shakespeare. Six of the plays, including Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet, have just been published (University Press of America; paperback, $2.95 each), and the remaining 31 will appear in installments over the next three years. People are losing interest in Shakespeare because the language has become too remote, Rowse contends, and all he has done is remove the "negative superfluous difficulties." Says he: "I want to keep William Shakespeare alive...
...Computer, now operating in bankruptcy after a couple of go-go years, charges that "marketing hype" has caused some prices to quintuple. Osborne has formed a new company called Paperback Software International, which hopes to sell programs for about $50. He expects to keep prices down by operating the company somewhat like an agricultural cooperative, with software writers being given stock in the firm, and by mass marketing...
Shrime's company, Micro Star, next month will begin offering the paperback-size instrument in both a plastic case ($400) and a brass one ($700). To use the device, travelers press a button to enter the name of the city they are visiting. A built-in microprocessor then does virtually all the rest. Shrime, a Lebanese Christian, spent two years designing the guide after consulting with Middle East Islamic leaders. The device has legions of potential customers: Islam counts more than 500 million followers...
...page 152)." The editor claims that they make our days With a "poignant profile" or a "sassy phrase." Now, that's what I like in a magazine Sassy not a Woodward or a Bernstein. People has all the stars that give me pains in the neck --It's a Paperback Elaine's. They picked the "Top Celebs of the Decade." And there are ten. (Can you have a celeb spayed...
...orthodoxy. It serves as an interesting guidebook to the official Soviet position on matters both practical and ideological, as well as offering Chernenko's-and presumably the Soviets'-view of the world. Herewith, excerpts from the English-language version of the book, which will be reprinted in paperback by Pergamon Press of Oxford next month under the title Selected Speeches and Writings...