Word: memorabilia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Baseball Hall of Famers Willie McCovey and Duke Snider face prison and fines as high as $250,000 for failing to report income from baseball memorabilia shows. McCovey pleaded guilty to one count of tax evasion, while Snider admitted conspiracy to defraud the government by filing a false tax return...
Hoping to woo back former fans and keep the ones they have, the soaps are also aggressively promoting themselves with such memorabilia as trading cards, coffee mugs, T shirts and books, as well as prime-time specials. Some are cleverly marketing videos that feature best-loved scenes and character histories. Available in video stores and supermarkets and through mail order, the tapes recycle old footage and thus cost little to produce. "It's a great example of using what you have and making money twice on it," says Michael Kape, managing editor of the weekly newsletter Soap Opera...
They're really coming back? A Manhattan boutique specializing in trendy '70s memorabilia reports a sales boomlet in vintage Earth Shoes. And negative-heeled shoes continue to be manufactured by the Roots shoe company of Canada; demand is reported to be highest in Japan. By LINA LOFARO
...influx of Midnight enthusiasts. Locals give guided tours of the book's notable sites, like the Bonaventure Cemetery, where the homicide victim used to collect his thoughts and rendezvous with his girlfriend, and Mercer House, the scene of the killing. Predictably, Savannah's merchants offer plenty of Midnight memorabilia like maps and T shirts. A cafa featured in the book now serves "fresh salads from our garden of good and evil...
...relentless tribune of racial equality after the Civil War. To commemorate the abolitionist's triumphs and disappointments, the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery this week opens ``Majestic in His Wrath: The Life of Frederick Douglass,'' an exhibition with more than 80 paintings, sculptures, photographs, engravings, documents and personal memorabilia. Through...