Word: hardly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...just six years. According to Marketing Logistics of Lincolnshire, Ill., a direct-marketing publisher, a grand total of $183 billion was shelled out for mail-order purchases and donations. Curse it though Americans may, the great outpouring of third-class communication can provide an antidote to loneliness, access to hard-to-find goods and a convenient answer to a housebound or time-pressed shopper's prayers. Careful study of this stack offers a handy citizen's guide to the most urgent political, environmental and social issues of the day. Cast in the best light, direct mail is the great American...
...about to go away. The fact is Americans like it too much and find it too useful. After all, while a trip to a junk-free mailbox might be less irksome, it would also be less helpful and interesting. The challenge, for senders and consumers alike, is to look hard at the flood of third-class communication and find ways to maintain the dialogue at a reasonable pitch...
BOBBY KING AND TERRY EVANS: RHYTHM, BLUES, SOUL & GROOVES (Rounder). Give these guys top marks in all those categories. This is neotraditional music done the hard way: sublimely. Some superlative backup too from guitarist Ry Cooder and keyboard player Spooner Oldham...
CASEY by Joseph E. Persico (Viking; $24.95). It has been said that CIA director William Casey "believed in the American flag, the Catholic Church, and nothing else." This hard-eyed biography suggests that history might have been altered for the better if the man behind Iranscam had also had faith in the Constitution...
...correct in the record that begins with Columbus. U.S. textbooks are just beginning to give proper emphasis to pre-Columbian cultures. Sale's iconoclastic biography is as one-sided as a lawyer's brief, but the evidence of European disdain for the conquered Eden and its inhabitants is hard to challenge. Between 1492 and 1514, as a result of disease and accumulated atrocities, the native Taino population on the island of Hispaniola shrank from an estimated 8 million to 28,000. By 1560 the Taino were extinct...