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...interplay of Chulkaturin's memories and Zoditch's quotidian existence is handled very cleverly even on a purely physical level. Because the memoirs come alive only through the readership of Zoditch, Chulkaturin's history is played out among the paraphernalia of Zoditch's boarding house. The first reader's bed serves the focus for much of the action--parior scenes, forest scene, garden scenes all occur around the bed, on which Zoditch, himself sits, reading the manuscript, impervious and scornful...
...latest record, thereby making Hi InFidelity the second largest selling album in the history of CBS Records. Rolling Stone, a magazine that was once the most prominent and articulate forum for rock culture, divests itself of much of its music coverage and aims for a more general readership. Record companies have cut back on corporate extravagances and are making a little money, mostly by kicking up prices. Punk is dead, New Wave is over, disco moved out when your older sister left home. The Clash can't swing a major hit single, so its albums...
Conditions vary from city to city, but the main problem is the same everywhere: readers and advertisers have trooped off to the suburbs. Says Publishing Analyst John Morton: "It's not that newspapers are dead. It's just that readership has been redistributed." Over the past two decades, for example, the News lost more than half a million readers while Long Island's Newsday upped its circulation 59%, to 507,000, and the Bergen County (N.J.) Record registered a 46% increase...
These days, the paper appeals to a demographic bracket. Its readership has largely crossed the Charles, moved into townhouses on Beacon Hill or Bay Village or elsewhere in the Back Bay. They have good grooming habits, and politics is not such a big thing because, after all, this is a damn nice townhouse. There are still many points of common agreement--the New Right is outrageous (this week's paper includes two accounts of an anti-abortion conclave); capitalism has its excesses (a very good story about the seamy business at an aerosol factory that ended with three workers dead...
...both by, for example, running weighty political analysis side by side with reports of steamy sex crimes. Circulation, at first 371,664, fell steadily; losses are now estimated to be $10 million a year. The Globe commands more than two-thirds of the city's daily newspaper readership and three-quarters of its advertising. Indeed, in recent months the entire Sunday Herald American was often outweighed by the Globe's classified ad section alone...