Word: recorditis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Less than four years ago, the publishing world gasped at the $5 million advance that William Morrow and Avon Books paid for hard-cover and soft-cover rights to James Clavell's Whirlwind. That record-breaking sum has since been equaled or topped repeatedly. Horror writer Stephen King was reportedly promised between $30 million and $40 million for his next four thrillers, to be published by Viking Penguin and New American Library. Simon & Schuster and Pocket Books shelled out $10.1 million for the next five novels from suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark. Warner Books paid Southern historical novelist Alexandra Ripley...
...objective, precise measure of who makes up the TV audience. In the past, viewers in Nielsen homes either filled out diaries or identified themselves by pushing buttons on hand-held consoles. With the new system, a computer would simply spot individual household members as they came into view and record them, second by second, as they faced the TV, read newspapers or merely turned their heads...
February 15: Men's hockey goalie Grant Blair records his seventh career shutout, tying a Harvard record, in a 3-0 win over Colgate. He will break the mark 11 months later...
February 20: Comedian Bill Murray turns in a 1-1 record in 3-on-3 pickup ball with the women's basketball team...
December 7: Scott Fusco sets the all-time Harvard goal-scoring record in an 11-3 win over Cornell...