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...about his naked need to be loved across the footlights. "Even if I had only one finger left," he once said, "I'd play for you." That's the credo of the compulsive showman, who loves to get people to sing along with all the tunes (Your Song, Daniel, Rocket Man, Crocodile Rock, I'm Still Standing) that have snaked into the pop repertoire...
...advertising, or someone else will get the work. ``You can jump in early and help create this exciting new medium,'' he said, ``or you can let the world pass you by, and find yourself operating the best darned buggy-whip business on Madison Avenue.'' Smith's warning followed a rocket from Edwin Artzt, chairman of Procter & Gamble, the largest U.S. advertiser. Last year Artzt told agencies that unless Madison Avenue gets its interactive act together, companies like his will find other ways to tell consumers about their PRODUCTS. Manufacturers are already diverting advertising dollars to direct marketing; many...
...play progresses, the actors are able to get a better hold on the rhythms of the dialogue. The words rocket form person to person as the characters desperately struggle to be heard and to fend off silence. Mamet's dialogue is like a spell, when it works right One is hypnotized, and can't help but hear what he wants emphasized. The characters babble on in a Beckett-like fashion about whatever comes to mind--an old photograph, a torn blanket, an impending camping trip with John and his absent father. As they ramble along, certain phrases stick...
China officially abandoned its bid for the huge Asian satellite TV market today when a rocket carrying a TV satellite blew up 65 seconds after lift-off. The destroyed U.S.-made satellite, which would have provided television, telephone and digital telecommunications for Asia and parts of eastern Europe, northern Africa and Australia, was the latest -- and apparently the last -- disaster to strike the Chinese commercial space agency...
...countries and the U.S. scrambled for explanations. The report by Interfax, a Russian news agency, cited an unidentified military source reporting that a missile launched from northern Europe was destroyed at 10:30 a.m. (2:30 a.m. EST). The killer missile turned out to be a NASA-funded research rocket, launched from Oslo, Norway, to study the Northern lights. "We are a little puzzled by the report," said Erik Lanke, spokesman for the Norwegian Supreme Defense Command in Oslo after the Interfax report. Spokesmen for NATO, several European countries and President Clinton said they were looking into the matter. When...