Word: popular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Where Nine Inch Nails are black, Skinny Puppy were brown. They had an industrial sound but Canadian accents, guilt but no sex appeal, jumpy synth and Depeche Mode drums but little popular success. Drugs and varied hardships put them in deep decline starting in '93, just as they were signing to major-label American Recordings. Now they've returned to their roots with Nettwerk Productions' double-release of their greatest hits and the corresponding B-sides, although it's mainly an excuse to eliminate the band's singles from the catalog. The two albums, with earlier tracks containing more guitar...
...this doesn't seem to stop the reading public from snapping up biographies as if they were retellings of polar expeditions. A glance at the New York Times Book Review bestseller list for nonfiction reveals that biographies take up a large share of the popular market. Regardless of what the domination of Harry Potter books on the fiction bestseller list might indicate about the typical reader of today, just as interesting is the number of biographies on the nonfiction list. Of the top 15 bestsellers last week, only two non-fiction books can be classified as having no biographical content...
Once a staple of well-accessorized Harvard gentlemen, pipes are returning as a popular alternative to unhealthy cigarettes and stinky stogies for some retro students. A private habit for some, conspicuous consumption for others, pipe-smoking is uniting tobacco lovers Square-wide...
...understood that most will move on after the contract is up. After that, there are four main routes: An analyst can stay in investment banking and seek a promotion, go to a venture capital firm, to private industry, or to business school. Industry is the most popular choice, especially with 25-year-old Internet millionaires cropping up everywhere--some analysts even leave early for Silicon Valley. And more and more graduates are skipping finance altogether to found their own Internet companies; some college students try to found start-ups while taking semesters...
Upon her retirement in 1991, Chall donated her 9,500-volume collection of books on reading, scholarly studies and popular books to the Gutman Education Library...