Word: blurb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said that the pursuit of fiction is the question of what is original. Kosinski said he had once written a blurb for one of his books that later turned up as a blurb for an unrelated movie. He called the offending parties to sue, but was told that the expense involved was not worth his time...
...Ehrlichman? Well, the book cover blurb says that he wrote The Company "in an old adobe house in Sante Fe, New Mexico...
...Photographs are contemporary to the point of being already dated, and photographic to the extreme of gimmickiness. Though the Special Exhibition of American Art on the ground floor of the Fogg "illustrates in several ways the changes in American art during the course of the 19th century," as the blurb has it, the changes, the paintings (and the "period" for that matter) are boring...
...inside flap of Doris Kearns's recently released book on Lyndon Johnson, a short blurb lists her academic qualifications. She graduated from Colby College in 1964, served as a White House fellow in 1967 and received a Ph.D from Harvard in 1968. The paragraph concludes, "She is now a professor in Government at Harvard University." The last part is a little vague--and with good reason...
...book is not, as the blurb boasts, "one of the most revealing, informative, and insightful books yet written about contemporary Soviet society..." It focuses squarely on the experiences of an American family, and only examines Soviet society insofar as it is perceived through their eyes...