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Blikk: Not in Hungary. Here it was called Slut. How did it come to publish? Were you lovemaking with a man-about-town printer? Do you prefer making suggestive literature to fast-selling CDs...
Which brings us to the return of the single. Back when music was exclusively on vinyl, singles were the medium musicians used to promote and sell songs from their latest albums; not infrequently, they were original works. But with the advent of CDs, the distinction between an album and a single, between a 12-inch 33 and a seven-inch 45, blurred. Since all recorded material now came on a standard CD, the special status singles enjoyed was eroded. Sales dipped; artist interest declined. Says Geoff Mayfield, director of charts at Billboard magazine: "For a while rock acts, particularly alternative...
Like most Hollywood productions, this is high-level illusion. Geffen, who is gay, lobbied the President to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military. Geffen stands to gain from the crackdown on the Chinese black market in American videos and CDs that his friend Mickey Kantor, the U.S. Trade Representative, negotiated last year. At 53, Geffen loves to talk economic and budgetary policy, and has a personal and professional interest in the culture wars. As a movie producer, he counts on Clinton to keep the morality-in-media debate focused on industry self-regulation. Above all, however, Geffen...
...circumstances. On the trade front, there is also disappointing news: estimates of the U.S. trade deficit with China range from $20 billion to $35 billion, depending on how Hong Kong transshipments are counted; moreover, Beijing has failed to vigorously enforce agreements with the U.S. that outlaw piracy of videos, CDs and software...
Perhaps the most fascinating of these applications--and certainly the most accessible to Netheads--is Firefly http://www.ffly.com) Agents' flashy new "music-recommendation system." Firefly lets you rate records, tapes and CDs and then pools those ratings to create a "map" of your musical tastes. With thousands of users' tastes pinpointed on that same map, it becomes simple to extract dead-on recommendations from the ratings lists of your closest "neighbors." From the mingling of large numbers of relatively simple pieces of information, in other words, an uncanny sort of acumen emerges, able to make suggestions even your best friend...