Word: shelfful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fairness, the season's surprise delight, She Loves Me, was far from a guaranteed hit. During its initial run, in a season dominated by Hello, Dolly! and Funny Girl, it failed to recoup its investment. "And then it sat on the shelf for 30 years," says Todd Haimes, artistic director of the nonprofit Roundabout Theater, which mounted the show for a summer run of a couple of months, during which it turned into a runaway hit and a commercial transfer. A key factor: ecstatic reviews from this generation of critics, who are unaccustomed to the musical bounty that greeted their...
...path leading to genetic manipulation of the creepiest sort. Life-forms can be patented, which means they can be bought and sold and potentially traded on the commodities markets. Human embryos are life-forms, and there is nothing to stop anyone from marketing them now, on the same shelf with the Cabbage Patch dolls...
Well, fine, but have you considered looking in that "Ec-10" book sitting untouched on your shelf to figure out why it is that, when it costs us about $7.50 per dinner, only $1.50 of it is actually going to the homeless? Or, for an advanced problem, how we could accomplish the same thing much more efficiently, and perhaps even do better...
...virtual library" would also solve the problems of limited shelf space and disintegration of old books that almost all libraries face...
...BOTTOM LINE: New books that belong on the shelf of classics about surviving degradation with dignity and even humor...