Word: paperbacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...Brand believes he can capture the new computer culture between book covers, and Doubleday & Co. is betting a record sum that he is right. On the basis of a twelve-page outline, the New York City publishing house advanced Brand a whopping $1.3 million to produce an oversize paperback that will guide readers through the maze of personal-computer tools, including commercial software, free software and electronic library services. The book will be called The Whole Earth Software Catalog and reflects Brand's unique point of view...
...obvious choice to play the main character. In Murder on Location, a hard-boiled tale of Hollywood low jinks, the sleuthing hero is an actor, just like George, a private pilot, just like George, and is named-you guessed it-George Kennedy. Avon books has run off 185,000 paperback copies and the film rights have already been snapped up. As for the plot, well, the book jacket copy says it all: "Lights! Camera! Murder! The picture had box-office bucks written all over it. Top talent, a big budget and a great script. Until someone on the set started...