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...Some electronics companies are lining up behind one or another product, although many say they will probably sell them all. Other standard setters, such as Panasonic, don't sell any in the U.S. yet. For any recording scheme to go mainstream, it will have to get even cheaper and simpler, according to Chris Muratore, an analyst at Soundata, Inc., a market-research firm based in Hartsdale, N.Y. But there's clearly an appetite for recordable-music formats. According to Muratore's research, more than 90% of music buyers still use cassettes, and more than 30% of the cassettes they...
...television execs in the audience. The art of telling jokes died with the comedy glut of the '80s, and in its place has grown not the rarefied, cerebral, arch alternacomedy that Janeane Garofalo, HBO's Mr. Show and Andy Kaufman-reincarnation Andy Dick have hyped but two much simpler comedic forms: characters and physical gags--the two forms that TV houses most comfortably. Cable has created an endless number of Comedy Central-ready troupes: there are 50 sketch groups in Toronto alone. The cleverest of them, like L.A.'s sketch-comedy and a capella troupe the But Franklies...
...around to all the Boston sights term-time Harvard students never get a chance to see: the Science Museum and IMAX ("Everest" was good, but not that good), the Pops, Canobie Lake Park and the beach, 14-year-olds in tow. The whole experience left me wondering how much simpler and perhaps equally productive it would be if undergraduates, instead of producing endless papers, performances and projects, all got together and played a good game of blob-tag for half an hour...
These bizarre names reflect a relatively new trend in music. Though it is always easy to compare today's culture to the ostensibly "simpler" times of years past, it is undeniable that the groups on the music scene of the 1980s had a much more intelligible system of nomenclature...
...Krause when they pass in the halls). In fact, he is so eager to go to another team to prove he's the second-best player in the NBA that he and his brother have been marketing "Last Dance" merchandise during the play-offs. But it's really much simpler than that. "Not that he's particularly attached to me, maybe not attached to the system of basketball," explains Jackson. "It's just the whole thing that's grown around us: the friendship, the reliability, the privacy that he has working here." Think about it: for the last year...