Word: sell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...baggy T shirts and oversize shoes watch in a trance as grown men with joysticks stalk one another through underground mazes, firing guns and blowing one another to bits. When chunks of bloody body parts thump to the ground, some of the onlookers laugh out loud. "This is gonna sell like hot cakes," chortles...
Violence has always been a big thing in the U.S., and there are good constitutional reasons why we can't legislate that out of our entertainment products. But the video-game industry makes only what it can sell. And as long as gore is what we're buying--for our kids and for ourselves--gore is what they'll give...
...record labels, eager for a hot new sound, have started to court Latin pop stars. The death of Tejano star Selena in 1995 and the sales boom in her music that followed got many label suits thinking: If Selena can sell millions of CDs posthumously, how much money could we make with a Latin pop star who can still tour? Says Maria Zenoz, CEO of Caliente Entertainment, a New York City-based record company: "The untimely death of Selena caused the mainstream labels to take a look...
...came with several unpleasant side effects, including flatulence and greasy stools. "The hazards are not very great," says Dr. Jules Hirsch, an obesity expert on the FDA advisory panel who voted against approval, "but the benefits are not great either. I'd just as soon they didn't sell it altogether...
...first to envision the fusion of Latin and disco music with English lyrics--or, as he likes to call it, "a cross between rice, beans and hamburger"--that came to be known as the Miami Sound. Undeterred by industry executives who said, "Dump the timbales" or "It will never sell," the Cuban immigrant put together a local band called the Miami Sound Machine in the early '80s. The lead singer was his then girlfriend Gloria. The group's 1985 smash hit Conga transformed Gloria Estefan into the first Latin female crossover superstar...