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...rich pages a week, and grossed almost $2 million in 1978. Ad revenues at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Reader (no relation) were up 410% in 1977 and 298% last year. Seattle's Weekly (circ. 15,000) won a contract to print the program for the visiting King Tut exhibit, and the Ithaca (N. Y.) Times and the local Chamber of Commerce collaborate to publish a calendar every summer. There is even an alternative chain: the Times/Advocate Newspapers, with papers serving western Massachusetts (circ. 85,000), New Haven and Hartford, Conn, (each 75,000), and Syracuse (40,000). Launched...
...unto wanton danglers of participles! The professor and his faithful press are out to save the English language, with a fire-and-brimstone fury quite beyond the droll tut-tutting of Edwin Newman...
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations spans some 5,000 years, from the Egyptian Book of the Dead (circa 3500 B.C.) to the verse of Andrei Voznesensky (born 1933). The book ends are astonishingly apposite. The King Tut exhibition demonstrates that ancient art has modern resonance. Nostalgia for the Present proves that Russia's contemporary poet tells ageless parables...
...sure, catalogue vendors lost no money on such stocking stuffers as a $45 sterling silver Perrier bottle opener with two silver bottle caps or a $140 one-inch-high sterling tea set. A $200 King Tut bust was bought by some 7,400 holders of American Express cards. Yves Saint Laurent's Opium perfume, at $100 an ounce, sold like, well, opium. Beverly Hills' David Orgell disposed of all 18 of his catalogue-advertised $750 sterling-silver telephones...
Seductive beauty and ageless craftsmanship account largely for the drawing power of Tut's treasures. "They are so fresh they kind of wipe out time," says Thomas Moving, who as former head of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum organized the show and has written the best-selling Tutankhamun: The Untold Story (Simon and Schuster; $12.95). Although many of the exhibit's 55 pieces are gold, Hoving maintains that the value of the collection is "not a critical part of its popularity." (Asked how much it is worth, he replies airily: "$416,872,417.68, plus green stamps...