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...side. The tabloid, using tidbits gleaned from Martha, Inc., a new and unauthorized biography by Christopher Byron, alleges that Stewart curses a blue streak, berates underlings, is mean to her family and scares neighborhood children. The portrait was unsavory enough for K Mart to decide to pull the Globe from all 1,800 of its stores. The move will presumably make Stewart happy and keep K Mart shoppers from adverse distractions while cruising the aisles for her decorative doormats...
There is an educational veneer to Spaces, which offers bold, cheap ways to fight IKEA-fied homogeneity--what executive producer Denise Cramsey calls "the maroon, dark green and oatmealization of America." But what hooks viewers is the race against the clock (the homeowners, helped by a carpenter and crew, pull near all-nighters, sewing and painting like sweatshop laborers) and the personalities...
...classic through a combination of radio marketing--the classic-rock-station label was born in 1983--and the happy associations formed by its mostly white, middle-class boomer listeners. These associations are so culturally pervasive that hearing, say, American Woman, spurs memories of road trips, sun-baked convertibles and pull-tab Schlitz, even among people too young to drink...
Thompson introduced Cuban to a Fox production specialist, Phil Garvin, who helped him solve the technical and financial obstacles to HDTV broadcasting. "With regular TV, you pull a truck up to a stadium, hook up to existing cables from every camera to the truck outside and transmit," he says. "But there were no cables for high def, and the setup was expensive." Sony had to create a new cable system for the five HD cameras needed for each game. By piggybacking on FoxSports' regular NHL broadcasts and using its graphics and audio, Garvin and Cuban got the network running...
...problem when he found himself dreading the good times. His firm, Sioux Chief Manufacturing of Peculiar, Mo., makes water-hammer arresters, which stop pipes from clanging. When demand periodically surged, the 350-person company was overwhelmed trying to handle the workload. "We had to do a lot of overtime, pull people off other departments, beg customers to take partial delivery of orders," says Howard, 61, Sioux Chief's materials manager. "It cost us money...