Word: blurbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stated in her biographical blurb that she hoped to enter politics once a friendly administration is in the White House. When and if she does leave, the Government Department will lose one of its brightest stars and one of its finest courses. But no one thought that Kearns would ever be forced to leave. Hopefully, the Government Department when it votes this month will vote to give its "brightest star" the tenure she deserves
Being a Boston Red Sox fan a thousand miles from the Hub is not all that easy. It consists of trying to glean the game story out of a box score, since the typical game blurb was only a sentence or two long. It also means staying up to get the ball scores if the Sox were out West. Otherwise you'd be kept in suspense until two days later when the story would finally make the morning editions...
Jerry Williams vs. Avl Nelson. "The first" says the WCVB blurb, "in a series of exciting debates between Boston's most outstanding talkmasters." (Williams is a burly, middle-aged, old-school liberal; Nelson is a young, super ambitious libertarian.) But this will probably dissolve into a classic more-heat-than-light confrontation, especially considering the not very narrow topic of tonight's debate: "Does the 'System' work?" Ch. 5, 11 p.m. 1 hour...
...Step right up . . . if you dare!" reads the blurb on the garishly illustrated cover. "See the werewolf turn into a real flesh-and-blood woman-right before your very eyes." This pitchman's approach, aimed at newsstand buyers of books on the occult, is misleading, for the product, a slim volume entitled The Circus of Dr. Lao, is no tawdry sci-fi thriller. It is instead a blending of the sardonic style of Ambrose Bierce and the homespun hyperbole of Mark Twain...
...castration and severe mutilation, variously featured in such creations as James Dickey's Deliverance and David Osborn's more recent novel Open Season, a dreadful account of three top Detroit executives who each year put a man and a woman to death for sport. (Says the jacket blurb, a searing portrait "of America in the seventies...