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...Seem like a fuss? It is--a long-overdue fuss. About two years ago, the video-rental business began fading faster than Godzilla. Remarkably, the decline had little to do with new technologies like video on demand, long thought to be the industry's Death Star. The threats from technology persist. But it was management, not technology, that caused so much corporate pain and so many customer complaints. After all, how many times are you willing to go out for Titanic and come back with The Poseidon Adventure? Eventually you just stop going out. And that's exactly what happened...
...familiar bedrock of Americana, the blues and jazz. By introducing acoustic guitars and shifting tempos punctuated by violins, penny whistles and other flourishes of world music and jazz, the band has forged a cerebral yet commercially appealing sound, surpassing competitors like Phish. Onstage, the five band members seem more like a jazz combo than a rock band, playing tightly coordinated phrases that suddenly veer off into flights of improvisation. Matthews sings, plays guitar and projects an uncomplicated, populist charisma that dispenses with rock-star pretense...
Capitol's country artists too seem to have got only a minor boost from pay-for-say. Brooks' album Sevens is a hit--as it would undoubtedly have been without pay-for-say. But Bogguss's Nobody Love, Nobody Gets Hurt, after debuting on the Billboard album chart at No. 42, has since slipped to No. 61, while Wariner's Burnin' the Roadhouse Down opened at No. 6 and fell to No. 21 last week. Pay-for-play is no magic wand. It can make a good record sell better but doesn't do much for an average...
...troublesome that Americans seem to think HMOs "deny their patients proper care." HMOs mostly do exactly what they are contracted to do. If people want more, they should supplement the coverage with their own money or go somewhere else. That's the American way. And if HMOs are making such obscene profits, let's go buy stock in 'em. CHARLES H. LOWRY Garden Grove, Calif...
HARCOURT BRACE would seem to have a major p.r. headache on its hands. The co-author of one of its lead fall titles, Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery, is PATRICIA SMITH, the Boston Globe columnist who was asked to resign in June after she was found to have fabricated four columns. Harcourt executive editor Jane Isay says the firm still plans to publish the book, which was co-authored with novelist Charles Johnson and is the companion to a PBS series. "She is a wonderful writer. Her prose is riveting," says Isay, who nonetheless concedes that Harcourt...