Word: toweritis
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Precise figures are hard to come by, but Tower Records, the nation's largest independent music retailer, reports that since September, classical-DVD sales have been running at least 12% ahead of the previous year's, whereas classical-CD sales in the same period have been more or less flat. With DVD players now in 70 million U.S. households and more and more people hooking up high-quality speakers or surround sound to their entertainment systems, the appeal of DVDs can only grow...
Sounds like Rachel Porter has no reason to worry about getting to spend another four years in this ivory tower-even if she does have to weather the brunt of her housemates’ messy Sunday mornings...
Mansfield offered another hypothesis for the bluish tint to the ivory tower...
...believe is that the as-yet unnamed culprits are guilty of the equivalent of petty theft or shoplifting. But did we react to this story in the same way we would have if we found out that a handful of our peers had been caught walking into Tower Records and swiping a recording of a Bartok piano? Probably...
...drink Coronas (and wear them too). We have elite palace guards (Currier Bells Desk), red carpet (coincidence?), and a bell tower. We have chauffeurs, singles, and crimsonfood.com. We also get sympathy. But who knows...