Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This level-headed approach to the game may be the key to Mark's success as this year's captain. Number-two player John Havens remarked, "Due to the perspective he keeps on his own squash game, Mark helps to keep a relaxed, but enthusiastic, atmosphere for the team...
More important, local businesses are supporting the Connection, and a recent issue contained so much advertising that staffers were embarrassed. Joked Copy Desk Chief Skip Frank, former State Journal late-news editor: "It's a financial success and an editorial disaster." Though Connection advertising has fallen off a bit in recent weeks, the strike paper is solidly in the black...
Ailing were WomenSports and Working Woman, two worthy attempts to further female self-awareness and success. Both claimed a circulation of 200,000, but neither came close to making money. Financier J. Jay Frankel filed a bankruptcy petition for Working Woman, which began publication 14 months ago, then promised refinancing and resuscitation for the magazine in 1978. WomenSports, founded by Tennis Queen Billie Jean King and Husband Larry in 1974, was bought by Charter two years ago. The Kings may now reclaim ownership and publish a less ambitious version, perhaps as a deliberately nonprofit venture under their Women...
Interestingly enough, the four cuts on side one, all of which have received considerable airplay on both the AM and FM dials, are the least innovative songs on the album. They fit neatly into the pattern that Joel has established in his past releases, but their success is still a tribute to the freshness and originality Joel brings to each of his new songs--even the ones that most resemble his familiar ballads...
...popularity of side one, the album's second side has remained obscure. For six years, Billy Joel has been turning out superb music that has gone relatively unnoticed, and the success of the four cuts on side one of The Stranger is a first for him. It seems that the listening public has now accepted the Billy Joel who has been around for years, but they are not yet ready to accept his new experiments--or as he calls it, "a face that we hide away...