Word: blurbing
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...price tag paid for the Traveler and its immense mechanical plant, mustered the good-naturedness to run a front-page editorial welcoming their new competitor. The Herald Traveler and Record American's publisher, Harold Kern, welcomed his paper into existence--also on the front page--with a four paragraph blurb reminiscent of copy composed by a disenfranchised...
...within its safe Sanforized philosophy, bottled him up in a sterilized glass cage where he can't touch the week-end hedonists who could afford to buy the book. Now it's clear that Bradley Smith, producer of this monstrosity, has an official pipeline to Hugh Hefner. But the blurb on the jacket makes clear that Smith is conspiring to make Miller into a pioneer bunnyman...
...Messiah has something to offend everyone. For lovers of vocal style, there is singing that would not pass muster in the 1950s-parody group Sha-Na-Na. For devotees of pure rock, there is numbingly dreary rhythm and somnolent guitar work. For connoisseurs of modesty, there is this blurb on the record jacket by the album's producer, Ronald Budnik: "It is hoped that Axelrod's work will bring to light and punctuate the creative acumen of Handel...
Times must be hard for the enemies of capitalist decadence; Russia's Literaturnaya Gazeta has laid down a heavy ideological barrage against Film Director Alfred Hitchcock, accusing him of "antihumanistic attitude toward art" and "psychological sadism." But as so often happens, a Communist putdown is a bourgeois blurb. "Millions of his spectators," says the Gazeta, "take Hitchcock's sinister feelings seriously and sigh with relief when the dark in the movie house is dispelled and the lights come on again...
...film critics haven't changed. There are still only a few, mostly the same ones who wrote ten years ago. But there is also a slough of college-educated hipsters and slick-journalist hypesters who probably wanted to be film critics since the time when they scanned their first blurb. And for no better reason than wanting to be a blurb themselves someday...