Word: readership
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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These results are subject to various interpretations. On the one hand, when they can find a respite from the demands and diversions of contemporary life, more people are reading more pap than ever before. On the other, Hawking's FRI rating of 3% amounts to a readership of some 30,000 for A Brief History of Time. Is that number shamefully low or encouragingly high? That probably depends on how it is read...
...Crimson arts staff believe we should explain the rationale behind our recent and controversial policy to review shows staged in the Loeb Experimental Theater (Ex). After careful thought, we have come to the conviction that reviewing Ex shows is in the best interests of our readership and of the University arts community...
...could even be said he sometimes undoes himself, with his verbal brilliance and command of literary technique. No matter. As an uninhibited high-energy performance, as a bold conception of a world tumbling toward a loveless void, this British best seller is destined for a large and divided readership...
...doing better than Ronald Reagan), foreign policy (Americans are upbeat on Mikhail Gorbachev but remain down on communism) and race (blacks are less optimistic than whites but believe more strongly in education). Editors have even employed polls to study journalism itself. In the mid-1980s, with newspaper readership declining relative to population growth, researchers diagnosed widespread public skepticism about journalists' methods and motives. Confounded by inconsistencies in those surveys, Times Mirror, the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, Newsday and several other papers, hired the Gallup organization to get to the truth. Gallup reassuringly reported in 1985 that no credibility...
...Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler (1985). The 1980s finally gave Tyler the broad readership her talents deserve. Her tenth novel is a poignant portrait of a travel writer who caters to people who hate to travel. Behind this whimsical premise lies a tragedy (the death of a child) that is never played for easy irony or pathos...