Word: paperback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past three months, the students have been compiling a 220-page book entitled "How Harvard Rules," which promises to raise a few eyebrows. The $8 paperback, to be released in January, will critique and analyze the nation's oldest university, which publicists charge "shelters rampaging Cold Warriors, ferociously racist and sexist theoreticians in the social and natural sciences, and corporate apologists masquerading as 'value-free' academics...
...fantasy, and we can get out." It is no wonder then that videocassettes like I Dismember Mama and Halloween are favorites on the rental circuit, that Aliens and Friday the 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives were among the top movie grossers of the summer, and that, in paperback, Stephen King now outsells James Michener and Robert Ludlum...
...novel about an adolescent with telekinetic powers and a lethal resentment of her high school tormentors. The work was worth a $2,500 advance, more than enough to pay some bills. And a good thing too: on Mother's Day, 1973, a Doubleday editor called about the sale of paperback rights. "I thought he was going to tell me I was only getting $5,000 or something," King fondly remembers. "He said $400,000. The only thing I could think to do was go out and buy my wife a hair dryer. I stumbled across the street...
...novel "about a crazy nurse who captures her pet writer and hooks him on drugs after a car crash. He writes bodice-ripper novels about a character called Misery Chastain. She wants him to write a book about Misery just for her, not knowing -- because she waits for the paperback -- that in the latest hard-cover he's killed Misery...
...Chrysler from the brink of financial ruin to robust health and considerable profits. And, yes, he has become a household name as the earnest TV pitchman for his company's cars. He is also the author of the best-selling autobiography ever (more than 5 million copies, hardcover and paperback, are in print) and a proud patriot who raised $277 million for the restoration of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. But Iacocca has said he is "repulsed" by the world of politics and its "dirty tricks" and has often stated his resolve against seeking elective office. Nevertheless, this...