Word: successful
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With A Mother and Two Daughters (1982), her fifth novel, Gail Godwin joined that select circle of critically praised authors who have also produced bestsellers. This happy event entitled her longtime admirers to mixed emotions. While it is pleasurable to see a favored writer receive the success she deserves, it is irksome to realize that membership in a small club of discriminating readers has suddenly been thrown open to multitudes. If so many people, the reasoning follows, liked Godwin's loose, loving chronicle of three plucky females, then maybe we should find it disappointing. And whom will she write...
...even 37,351 is a statistical flyspeck in the megahyped world of rock music. The fact is that in almost 20 years of playing, the Dead have never managed to record a song that sold enough copies to make it as a hit single. They have had fair success with albums, but their ecstatic, visionary offshoot of rock spins with improvisation, and the necessity to nail things down in a studio version tends to fossilize the band...
...standard-size vacuum cleaner, squatting in countless American closets, is a veritable symbol of drudgery. But now there is a little vac hanging on the wall, designed just to clean up the spilled potting soil and the scattered cat litter. It is the Dustbuster, and its phenomenal success is dramatically changing the fortunes of its maker, Black & Decker...
Dustbusters were introduced in 1979, but sales got a charge in the past few months from a $3 million advertising campaign. With about 10 million Dustbusters sold, the product's success led rivals to introduce competing models. Black & Decker fought back by filing patent-infringement suits against more than a dozen competitors...
Godwin admits that a big impediment to the success of a National Rainbow Coalition is gaining the support of non-Blacks. "We have to attract more Hispanics, whites and Orientals to the Rainbow Coalition," he says...