Word: winstone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million. In a hard-driving business, Windham Hill's success is anomalous, for the label is rarely heard on the radio, and it advertises only occasionally. Instead, it relies on word of mouth among its target audience of young white professionals. It must be doing something right: Pianist George Winston, perhaps the best known of its largely faceless roster, has been on Billboard's Top 40 jazz chart a total of 184 weeks with his album December, a user-friendly amalgam of Bach, Satie and Jazzman Keith Jarrett...
...still too young and stylistically inchoate for any assessment of its ultimate worth. But its appeal is wide. "I wouldn't be surprised if some farmer in Iowa listens to George Winston while plowing his fields," says Keith Eckerling, a record-store-chain vice president in Chicago. And its possibilities are promising. In multiracial, heavily Asian California, an authentic fusion of Oriental and Occidental music has been under way since Composer Lou Harrison experimented with the Balinese gamelan orchestra before World War II. And the healthy interaction between the rock and "classical" avant-gardes, which bore fruit a decade...
Nuclear-power advocates and adversaries alike were pleased by the Soviets' openness, but there the agreement ended. For Don Winston of the pronuclear Atomic Industrial Forum, the report, while "quite frank and quite forthcoming," means little to the U.S., where technology and safety procedures are much better. For Maize, of the Union of Concerned Scientists, the fact that the Soviet plant was "run by the Marx Brothers" does not preclude similar problems in other countries. "It struck me as terrifying that this whole comedy of errors could actually have taken place," he says, adding that...
...Winston was hardly alone in her dismay. Though all three network morning ) shows are a mix of news and entertainment (Good Morning America is produced by ABC's entertainment division, while Today is a product of NBC News), the new CBS morning show will almost certainly have less news content than its predecessor. "Everyone is disheartened to see it go," says CBS Correspondent Bill Plante. "It doesn't contribute to a sense of stability in the network...
...failed ventures that CBS got itself into. To a great extent, the chickens have come home to roost." Some staff members are actually rooting for a Tisch takeover, on the assumption, in the words of one news producer, that "anything is better than what we've got." Susan Winston compares the atmosphere to the days at ABC before the January takeover by Capital Cities Communications: "I think that the various CBS divisions are trying to position themselves for whatever is to come -- meaning the era of Tisch...