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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...management has met with mixed success in alleviating the traditional bane of the sourcebook room: the interminable wait...

Author: By Chana R. Schoenberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Management, But Same Old Lines For Sourcebooks | 9/23/1997 | See Source »

...ultraportable subnotebooks, including the Compaq Contura Aero and the Toshiba Portege, had some limited success. But most of these models had to make too many compromises in order to fit into a small, efficient package...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: New Notebook Computers Offer More Memory | 9/23/1997 | See Source »

DIED. BURGESS MEREDITH, 89, chameleon-like actor who performed the highbrow and lowbrow with equal enthusiasm and success; in Malibu, Calif. His Mio in Winterset (1936) simmered with earnest indignation; his Penguin in TV's Batman was gloriously over the top. He played the gentle George in Of Mice and Men, the careworn coach in Rocky and even did a gravelly voice-over for Skippy peanut butter. Meredith defended his quirky choices, saying, "I'm a man moved by the rhythms of his time, so I'll just take amusement at being a paradox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 22, 1997 | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...success of the gallows-humor approach is only one indication that the counterculture is alive and thriving on Madison Avenue. Advertisers have been using nostalgia to hawk everything from GTE phone service to the Coopers & Lybrand accounting firm to music by such '60s icons as the Beatles and Bob Dylan. In a current Chevrolet ad, a pair of '60s-style flower children morph into the proud Establishment-type owners of a Chevy Venture van. "The bad pun we use is that baby boomers will retread, not retire," says Yankelovich's Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGE IS NO BARRIER | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

Like Miramax, CBS has been tuning in to this mature audience. The success of such programs as Touched by an Angel and the CBS Sunday Movie recently helped the network persuade six major sponsors, including Coca-Cola, General Motors and Upjohn, to shift $100 million of fall prime-time advertising to shows that target older audiences. Among them: 60 Minutes, Cosby and the hospital drama Chicago Hope. In so doing, CBS has begun laying the groundwork for increased advertiser support for programs for aging boomers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGE IS NO BARRIER | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

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