Word: see
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...store will either repel you or draw you in. Some people won't buy books there, others spend hours looking at the books and talking to the employees. It's true, they make no pretense of their politics and if you don't see them in the store, you might see them in the Square selling the bi-weekly Workers' Vanguard...
Anyway, if it doesn't have the book you are looking for, Revolution will probably have six or seven related ones that you somehow end up buying. The stock is large, but unreliable. While Revolution has a wide variety of books, if you see something you want there on Monday, buy it--it may well not be in stock by Wednesday...
...Anybody that pays me to go see basketball games is crazy," says Veneziano, who graduated from Boston University in 1986 and has served as B.U.'s assistant director of sports information since December 1986. "There are people who will pay hundreds of dollars to travel somewhere and watch a basketball game...
Batman surely has consumer anticipation -- in Hollywoodese, "wanna-see." Last fall Fleet Street sent out helicopters to get photos from the film's closed London set. In the U.S. last winter, fans reportedly paid $6 to get into theaters where the 90-sec. trailer was being shown, then left before the main feature. The market is already clogged with Batman products -- including miniature Batmobiles, Batwings, sunshades, earrings, cloisonne pins, backpacks and boxer shorts -- as part of a huge merchandising campaign...
...tremendous skepticism. "I'd say I was doing a Batman film, and people would laugh," recalls Peters. "They saw him as a guy in tights, and unlike Superman, he didn't fly." Finding a suitable script proved an additional problem. Early drafts followed Batman from the childhood trauma of seeing his parents gunned down by vicious Jack Napier. "You had to wade through 20 years," says Sam Hamm, one of the three writers who worked on the film, "just to get to the first shot of the guy in the costume that we've all come to see." His solution...