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...have been held in Clinton's office.) It was a key moment in the charmed life of this amusing study of the sexual character of zodiac signs. Sextrology began with a modest printing of 10,000 copies in the U.S. in January, and has since grown into a word-of-mouth phenomenon, with six printings and total sales of almost 50,000 copies. Since the book's European launch during the summer, international sales have reached some 10,000 copies, mostly in Britain; Starsky and Cox are in discussion with the BBC about developing a companion TV series. "Sextrology tells...
...work and some fine supporting turns could help make the film a minor Christmas hit. But Schumacher must have been banking on his unknowns to deliver revelatory, headline-making performances, just as Colin Farrell did in Phone Booth. Alas, they don't, and without big names or great word-of-mouth, this movie musical could be a hard sell. Better hope those theater fans like popcorn...
...world's fastest supercomputers, WebFountain can whittle down billions of pages of unstructured data from the entire Web in real time, rapidly retrieving and analyzing only the most relevant pages. Geared for corporate applications, WebFountain spots online trends as they emerge, identifies patterns--assessing even word-of-mouth gossip, chatter and sentiment--and keeps track of them, noting how they change over time. "Google on steroids" is how one top IBM executive has described...
...college reps also help promote various Playboy events and foster word-of-mouth buzz. One such program is the Campus Bar of the Month, which features popular campus bars from such colleges as Wisconsin, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, MIT and most recently BU, on the POC website...
...books--The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Tears of the Giraffe, Morality for Beautiful Girls and The Kalahari Typing School for Men--which detail the quiet and quirky adventures of Botswanan sleuth Mma (pronounced Ma, the most correct way of addressing women in Botswana) Ramotswe, have become international word-of-mouth hits, sold millions and been translated into 26 languages, partly because of their sheer cheerfulness...