Word: blurbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...human spirit. The usual checklist of "youth culture" rhetoric-radicals, drugs, sex, "the establishment"-is so common, that it's become easy to fall into the trap of thinking that no one has anything really important or sensitive to say. It's become easy to read a jacket cover blurb like "Sonzski may be as meaningful for his generation as Salinger was for his" and, as I did, want to throw...
...managed to kill it: A day never goes by at any newspaper without the arrival of review copies of at least five or six new novels, each worse than the one before, each proclaimed by its publisher as the literary epic of the century, each accompanied by a favorable blurb from Publisher's Weekly. (I don't think PW has ever not liked a book...
...year ago today the bill's supporters massed in Gardner Auditorium in the State House to begin to work for the bill's passage. The bill became a prime trial for the people's right to govern themselves, and the book reflects basic liberal hopes and idealism. A jacket blurb quotes George McGovern...
Although all this sounds exceptionally unexciting, the noises grow on you very quickly. Side two, entitled "There Whale Trip" (get it?), was recorded too close to the ocean's surface so there is a constant rush of water in the background. "After a few moments of listening." the blurb on the jacket says, "you will learn to hear much as a whale probably does, ignoring the background noises and focusing on the whale songs." And once again, the blurb is right. There you are, thinking as a whale does, splashing along just under the surface. You may soon drive your...
What did the Manhattan moguls of prime-time television do with the new season? To hear them talk, they discovered America. Blurb writers who could not spell "relevant" collected severance. Faster than a speeding memo, the West Coast got the word that the medium must have a message: entertainment TV could be cool no more but must be aflame, or at least perspiring, with social consciousness...