Word: things
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gift has made his biggest noise on the record charts with the Cannibals. Their latest album, The Raw & the Cooked, has sold 3 million copies worldwide since January. The first single, She Drives Me Crazy, hit No. 1 on the U.S. charts, and a second, Good Thing, is just breaking. The band also features a couple of dexterous guitarists, Andy Cox and David Steele, formerly of the English Beat. But it's Gift everyone is noticing at the moment. He's got a supple way with a tune, and a promising presence onscreen...
...Lance will be dead by 1995 unless is it is modernized. There is such a thing as electronic rust. That means that by '95 you could fire a Lance without enough assurance that it wouldn't be a dud. Increasing the range should be appealing to everyone, including the Germans. That means we could move the missiles back from the front lines. Increasing the Lance's range would give us more territory in which to hide them, thus making the deterrent safer, and it would give us greater flexibility about actually using them. The farther back, the more likely...
...office building; pedestrians peek in through sidewalk windows. Allowing the Rose, the only Elizabethan theater ever discovered, to disappear once again sounds like the stuff of a Shakespearean tragedy. "Replicas of Elizabethan theaters are being built everywhere," observes actor Ian McKellen, "but this is the real thing, and you don't throw away the real thing...
...industry-wide ferment is certain to continue, however, as hundreds of small cable operators merge into regional units or sell out to the giants. Ultimately, the number of systems could dwindle to a handful. "The same thing happened in the movie industry 50 years ago," says Robert Thomson, Tele- Communications' vice president for government relations. "They once had many more studios." With that prospect in mind, the major cable companies are scrambling today to make sure they do not wind up on the cutting-room floor tomorrow...
...head to head, each of them could hit a home run." Notes producer Laurence Mark: "Sequels aren't necessarily about a failure of the Hollywood imagination. They're about lowering risks." So why, in a business full of expensive risks, shouldn't Hollywood be allowed just one near-sure thing...