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...think that the '80s never happened. At every turn, on every issue for which there presumably was one simple, knee-jerk, anti-Soviet answer -- the MX, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Grenada, "Euromissile" deployment -- there was deep division. And practically every time, liberals, so wistful now for the easy choices of yore, made the wrong choice...
...staff, perhaps taking note of the false messiahs that appeared in the Sabbatean glory days of yore, has thrown its faith in Berry into the trashbin of history...
...shrinking beer market and found big-time potential in the nonalcoholic segment. Now it appears as if half the shelf space in the supermarket beverage section is filled with a score or more of nonalcoholic brand names, many of them a substantial taste improvement over the pioneers of yore. Miller has sold 5.5 million cases of its Sharp's brand, after just a year on the market, vs. 3.3 million cases of A-B's new brand, O'Doul...
Still, publishers keep spending. The book industry increasingly bears more resemblance to Hollywood's high-rolling studios than to the decorous literary < houses of yore. Most large publishers are now part of corporate conglomerates, which are looking for blockbuster subjects to attract new audiences. "What you've got," says a high-level publisher, "is a lot of corporate executives who don't know publishing saying, 'Aha! There's a huge market out there that has never been tapped. Let's go after it.' " In a controversial article in the New Republic, writer Jacob Weisberg attacked this frenzied pursuit of blockbusters...