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...short, Exhale demonstrates that it is no longer necessary for a book or movie to be targeted for whites to be a smash. The black audience alone can make it one. That could mean a further Balkanization of the mass-entertainment market, as the movie, book and music industries turn out new products designed to exploit each sufficiently lucrative ethnic niche. Says McMillan: "I told the executives at the studio, 'Watch and see after the holidays how many scripts you have on your desk about middle-class black people who go to the grocery store and live regular lives.' There...
...classic "smash 'n' grab" robbery, a thief or thieves broke the window of a Harvard Square jewelry store and stole $1,200 in assorted gems Sunday morning, police said...
...composed of producer-instrumentalist Bryce Wilson and singer-lyricist Amel Larrieux, have a hit (their sweetly insinuative single Tell Me has sold more than half a million copies), and, happily, the rest of their debut CD, titled simply Groove Theory (Epic), amply lives up to that first smash...
...interview, when broadcast in Britain, was a ratings smash. Perhaps it even topped Oprah's thoughts on lesbian mothers whose transgender children like to play with cake doughs--or Ricki Lake's slightly more racy exploration of "Hot and Heavy Overweight Women Who Like To Sleep Around." Diana's coy smiles and canned answers seemed to have greater appeal than these other staged circuses, maybe because she is seen so seldom on the talk show circuit. Or maybe it's because the interview was conducted by the venerable and home-grown British Broadcasting Corporation. Or maybe it was because...
...enchanting vista, as Einstein and Picasso and Presley stand contemplating the stars. Where are we headed? The heavens are dark; the light is supernal; and the unlikely trio brings a pair of provocative messages. One: the old order is doomed; everything we live by is destined to go smash. Two: things are going to be all right...