It is, on paper, a deep roster favored to claim another title in a weak division.
It is tempting to favor job title or seniority as criteria for distributing these goodies: rank has its privileges, and reasonably so in a meritocracy.
"We don't care about cinematography or great acting or anything like that," Jim McBride, who favors the title chief sexecutive officer, said on the phone from his company's Chicago offices.
Sony says 24 popular titles will be available at launch or soon after; the library strongly favors complex titles like Need for Speed and Gretzky NHL, not the simple time-killing stuff like bowling and Tetris that attracts folks on cell phones.
A prominent tattoo on his right arm spells out the word "Dux," Latin for "leader," the title favored by Mussolini.
The program is surprisingly restrained for TLC, which favors sensational titles like "My Teen Is Pregnant & So Am I". "She was offering massages," one man recalls.
Ms. Awerbuck once told an interviewer why she favors song titles for her work: "I do it partly because it's an in-joke, and people who get the joke get an extra frisson.
With tracks like "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle", Cobain favored long song titles in reaction to contemporary alternative rock bands that utilized single-word titles.
So the buy buttons are missing from older titles like "Labyrinth" by Kate Mosse or "Duma Key," by Stephen King, who still managed to get favored treatment for titles in his "Dark Tower" series.
(When not using it himself, Ryman has favored astringently poetic titles, on the order of "Regis," "Consort," and "Journal").
The early best-seller lists were dominated by science fiction novels and other titles favored by men, who, not coincidentally, also tend to buy gadgets.
