Word: demos
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...marketing strategies get crazier and crazier. ChickClick.com is running a contest to find an online DJ (or "chick-jockey" as they call it), and they promise one year's free rent in Los Angeles and "all the coolest parties" to the woman who sends in the best demo tape. That's a cool deal, but is this an indication of a true boom in on-line listening? Or just trying to grab a slice of a fixed pie? Has any singer or band become famous solely through Internet distribution...
...prove this point, he showed a five-minute demo video of how Doonesbury might look in the future, with Doonesbury's very own presidential candidate, the clueless Duke, performing a "Larry King Live" interview...
...Land monogram 19. Humdinger 21. Auction ending? 22. Consort of Caesar 23. Joe Cocker's Cry Me __ 25. Spain's Prime Minister, who scored a landslide 26. Virginia Governor who okayed creation of an Internet transaction code 28. Apples, pears and such 31. Big name in Internet software 34. Demo unit, for short 35. Like Anderson in '80: Abbr. 36. __Corell, U.N. team leader in Cambodia 38. Roofer's gunk 39. It's offering PCs to its employees 41. Code-cracking org. 42. Sacrificial sites 44. "But I am not the sea nor the __": Whitman 46. Nurse, as a drink...
...changed. The band sided with Harvard finals over this great opportunity. While the guys might have envisioned themselves narrating stories of this offer to their great-grandchildren, Warren describes the situation a little differently: "It was never really a real prospect to me. We didn't even submit a demo." Okay...but, the Viper Room? That's still a score, and in anybody's book, the "remote possibility" is as good as done...
Gusmorino, a computer science concentrator, immediately began working on a demo. Shumsky prepared a report to present to the CUE, which then approved the project in the spring...