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...Maybe PEARL JAM felt its campaign to become less popular was getting too successful. The grunge band, which maintained a no-interviews, no-videos, no-selling-tickets-the-normal-way frame of mind even before singer Eddie Vedder's appearance on the cover of TIME five years ago, seems to have relented. Not only has it released Single Video Theory, a home video of the band rehearsing for its current Yield album tour, but, horror of promotional horrors, a clip for Do the Evolution will soon pop up on MTV. The band released a statement about its new work, saying...
Impersonating a pirate was part of his marketing plan. Born on Christmas Day, 1946, in Pascagoula, Miss., Buffett was raised in Mobile, Ala., where his father worked in the shipyard. He was an altar boy who busted loose, discovering girls and guitars at Pearl River Junior College in Poplarville, Miss., playing acid rock in the clubs of New Orleans, moving to Nashville and working for Billboard, and failing in his first bid for folkie stardom (his debut album stiffed, and his second was put on the shelf). In 1971 he fled Tennessee and a bad first marriage and wound...
...stocks? Because the Net really delivers what TV shopping only promised. Rather than sitting in front of the tube, stupefied by a parade of junk while waiting for something you might want to buy, on the Net you can instantly research and order exactly what you want--whether a pearl necklace or a ticket to Maui or 100 shares of stock--at the lowest price around. E-commerce is already big, and it's going to be huge. Can you afford not to invest...
...attracts media attention, the hateful sentiments conveyed by that golden voice will more likely guarantee a continuing decline in N.R.A. membership. Heston's outspoken and controversial reflections may win the applause of the right wing, but his inflammatory rhetoric is repugnant to most Americans, including real sportsmen. KATHLEEN GREGG Pearl River...
...President wants to spend a billion dollars on after-school programs, on the theory that if Kip had been at a "21st Century Community Learning Center," he wouldn't have been blasting away with the .22-cal. semiautomatic Dad had got him. Will any of these policies work? As Pearl and West Paducah, Springfield and Jonesboro know, there are no easy truths. Only grim ones...