Word: successful
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OFTEN SECOND NOVELS do not measure up to first works; they are plagued by novelists who try too hard or experiment too much in order to match their first success. Sometimes they are written by people who said it all the first time around. Woiwode's novel is not one of these. Woiwode's first novel, What I'm Going To Do, I Think, won the William Faulkner Foundation Award for the "most notable first novel" of 1969. This feat would not be so noteworthy if the similarities between Woiwode and Faulkner were not so striking. Woiwode's story...
...success of Marvel Comics has certainly exceeded even Lee's expectations, and in fact they have branched out into other media. Some of his original comic book characters have appeared on their own Saturday morning cartoon shows for several years, although he has nothing to do with their production. He notes that Steve Krantz, of Fritz the Cat and Cooley High fame, is producing a feature film on Spiderman--not animated, but live action. Another director plans to put out a movie based on Lee's character the Hulk. And according to Lee, Paramount Television is planning a television series...
Gregg A. Demar '76, president of WHRB, said yesterday that WHRB has changed over the years from a station broadcasting only to the Harvard community to an FM station serving the greater Boston area. "We can only hope for continued success in the future," Demar said...
Maybe there's something worth saying in this: You can destroy a show like Pacific Overtures the day after it opens, or you can make a big hit out of it--and I suppose "hit" is the unfortunate word; a success for yourself out of it. Sure we're having to make a lot of changes, but one of the things I've learned from my own experiences as a director is that you don't change the obvious, uncomplicated problems first, because that will shake up a lot of other things. If I have to change the personnel...
Epps said he was initially worried that the new magazine would compete with the Advocate or would be financially unfeasible. "I'm now convinced that the magazine will not directly compete with the existing publications and has at least a chance for financial success," Epps said yesterday...