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That peremptory statement is the introduction to one of the year's most intriguing books, a $4 quarto-sized paperback that, mainly by word of mouth, has become an underground bestseller...
Close to 1,000,000 copies of Erich Segal's hardcover book are in print. Love Story is still number one on the bestseller list-while a 95? edition is the top-selling paperback. Now comes the celluloid version, manipulating audiences with contrived bathos. No wonder Love Story has enjoyed the largest opening-week grosses in the history of American cinema. No wonder that on Christmas Day, when it opened across the country, the movie broke the house record in 159 of 165 locations. In three days it earned $2,463,916-more than it cost to make...
...gubment," or government, of Arkansas begins an upcoming legislative "spatial" (special) session called by Governor Bill Clinton, observers unfamiliar with Southern political dialect will have available the next best thing to simultaneous translation: a just published paperback of 35 uproarious pages titled The Southern Legislative Dictionary...
Emerald Point's producers call their show, which stars Dennis Weaver as an admiral with three lubricious daughters, "a modern King Lear." (Then what's Dallas? Oedipus Tex?) This and the other new dramas offer the easy thrills of a paperback bought at a bus terminal; even the season's best sitcoms, Just Our Luck and Mr. Smith, are no more demanding than a vintage comic book in Dad's attic. Still, trash has its charms. Herewith a look at ten fall shows, good, bad and same-different...
That is not an exaggeration. Manga, Japanese comic books, are more adult and more insidious than TV. Unlike the pulpy, stapled American product, manga are well bound and published in paperback size. The drawings are cinematic, displaying heroes and heroines in explicit sexual and military-war adventures. In recent years, manga have grown into a billion-dollar publishing venture. Doraemon, an atomic-powered robot cat, makes Garfield look like something the human dragged in. Created in 1970, Doraemon has now appeared in a 26-volume collection with sales of $50 million. In 1980 Akira Toriyama sold 15 million copies...