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Seinfeld's high ratings give the impression that everyone in America is watching the show and that therefore its departure will create a huge void in popular culture. Actually, by historical standards, Seinfeld does not have a very big audience. As we all know, the ratings for the networks have decreased markedly in the past few years as cable has become more popular, and the effect on even the top shows is startling. In the 1963-64 season, those dread Hillbillies averaged a rating of 39.1--in other words, they were being seen by 39.1% of all households with television...
...There's no Cold War and no real hot wars, and the economy's doing well," Glassman said. "That leaves journalists with a lot less to talk about...and into this void comes Monica Lewinsky...
...history of megamergers is that they tend not to work as planned. "When you create these oversize companies, they become vulnerable by definition," says Porter Bibb, a senior investment banker at Ladenburg Thalmann. Big firms can't react to small opportunities, so new businesses pop up to fill the void. Some inevitably grow enough to challenge the giants. Indeed, every merger phase in the U.S. in the past 30 years has been followed by a period of divestitures as companies retreated to their "core competencies...
Even if you hate classical music to death for its staid canonical values that place a tradition on feigned understanding of expressive abstraction, or even if soloists who reach levels of technical sophistication matched only by the complete void of emotion don't float your boat, well, here's a good cause for you, featuring none other than yummy Joe Lin. This violinist, who is promoted prominently in windows at Claverly, will hold a charity solo concert for the HARMONY program, a community service organization that provides free music lessons to Cambridge public school children. Out of the classroom...
...just so easy to hate Scott Weiland. Right as Pearl Jam decided they didn't want to be famous and began their ambitious attempt to alienate every single one of their fans, Weiland's bubble-grunge outfit Stone Temple Pilots went on to fill the blustery-rock void. STP sold millions of albums on the strengths of such artistic master-pieces as "Creep" and "Trippin' on a Hole In a Paper Heart," with self-confessed "fashion whore" Weiland squarely at the helm. Sure, they were hooky, but compared to Pearl Jam, STP exuded about as much genuine angst as Gavin...