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...relevant." As declining sales forced the company to cut back on R. and D., the styling of Reeboks across the board fell out of favor. John Shanley, an analyst with Wells Fargo Van Kasper, puts it this way: "Reebok shoes started looking like they belonged on the shelf of an orthopedic patient...
...October will have several European works that sound interesting. Top Shelf publishes "Miniburger," an actual box containing a set of mini-comix selected by the Slovenian editors of "Stripburger," which will include works from Slovenia, Bosnia, Serbia, Italy, and France. The Bries publishing company will put out "Louis Armstrong," by Philip Paquet, a Belgian, about Satchmo's early days, and "Tango with Death," by Ulf K., a German, made up of short stories involving...
Langer also changed forever the way the materials used in these systems are designed. Researchers in the past had relied on off-the-shelf materials for medical applications. (The fabric in the first artificial heart, for example, was the same polyether urethane used in women's girdles.) Langer reversed the search process; in his lab, researchers first determine the exact physiological requirements of a system and then design a polymer to meet those specs...
...Shelf, the Marietta, Georgia publisher, immediately signed them and has now put out this remarkable debut. But wait, there's more! They have also put out a slimmer, one-shot comicbook by Hall and Kindt, "Mephisto and the Empty Box," simultaneously with "Pistolwhip," for a double debut. Somebody tell those guys to calm down. The one book speaks for itself...
Alex Robinson's "Box Office Poison," (Top Shelf Productions; 602 pg.; $29.95), has nothing to do with Hollywood, but is instead a phone-book-sized story of friends and lovers in their twenties living and working in New York City. The central character, Sherman, slaves away at a Manhattan bookstore while struggling with aspirations of being a writer and coping with his self-destructive girlfriend. Meanwhile his best-friend, Ed, employed as the assistant to an old-time comicbook "legend," begins a crusade to earn his craggy boss compensation for the lucrative characters he signed away fifty years...