Word: platinum
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...American colleges supply chef-cooked meals, platinum pens, and designer teaching? Following recent stories in the media, an uninformed person (or a foreigner like me) might believe it to be so. While I look around for a pillow in my bare Harvard dorm, let me try to add a pinch of fact to the current debate about the institutions of higher learning and their allegedly absurd amenities...
...1980s. Ratt and Poison just wrapped up a long, large-venue summer tour where they played regularly before 8,000 to 10,000 fans. Ratt lead singer Pearcy says he noticed an emerging younger fan base of teenagers and twenty-somethings who were born years after Ratt multi-platinum Out of the Cellar album released in 1984. "It has been a gradual buildup again. It's rock and roll - colorful, dangerous, exciting," Pearcy said...
...1980s, a girl by the name of Tracy Chapman began performing on the streets of Cambridge and Harvard Square. By 1988, she was a multi-platinum selling pop star with three Grammys.Today, musicians and entertainers are still using the streets of Harvard Square as their venue to reach the students and ever-abundant tourists who grace the sidewalks.For some, street performing is a way to make a living. For some, it’s a way to get out a message. And others use it for marketing campaigns.A CAPTIVE AUDIENCEA street performance permit from the City of Cambridge costs...
...take time to sort out, but for established artists at least, turning what was once their highest-value asset - a much-buzzed-about new album - into a loss leader may be the wave of the future. Even under the most lucrative record deals, the ones reserved for repeat, multi-platinum superstars, the artists can end up with less than 30% of overall sales revenue (which often is then split among several band members). Meanwhile, as record sales decline, the concert business is booming. In July, Prince gave away his album Planet Earth for free in the U.K. through the downmarket...
...London art scene this summer. You could have caught a glimpse at the Tate Modern’s Dalí exhibit, which highlighted his Hollywood aspirations. Or you could have strolled over the to White Cube Gallery and taken a gander at Damien Hirst’s diamond-encrusted platinum skull, “For the Love of God,” which recently sold for three-quarters of the budget of “Transformers.” See? Even the box-office revenues at the great European galleries were on par with the latest Michael Bay flicks...