Word: carp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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STEVE BRILL New mag has to change name from Content to Brill's Content; Hope Brylcreem doesn't carp...
...half-past seven the lights are lit and the copy box begins its merciless accompaniment to the printer's sharp cry, "Carp-e-e." This box is primarily an invention for conveying manuscript from the desk to the printing room. From then on, the managing editor's business is to keep his head and to see that order and reason prevails in all matters concerning the paper and himself. Candidates come in with botched stories and wonderful excuses. All have to be attended to and set on the straight path promptly. Editors must need be coaxed into getting down...
...managing editor of today no longer has the superhuman responsibilities of his predecessor, and the copy box has been replaced by wires and networking. Nobody yells "Carp-e-e," although choicer epithets are often used for a dilatory night editor. The practice of releasing unpublished stories to the public press, which had already been suspended once James wrote his article, died a natural death from old age somewhere in the 1920s or 1930s, its grave unmarked. But candidates still botch stories and give "wonderful excuses," and the flavor of a real newspaper is still there...
That last comment comes in the context of Seinfeld's irritation with critics who have complained that the show is "off" this season; the fact that critics care enough to carp about a mere TV show, he feels, is both ridiculous and a tribute to the level of quality Seinfeld, the show, has maintained over its nine seasons. Consequently, Seinfeld, the person, has been even more perplexed and flattered by the outpouring of national grief that came with the Christmas announcement that his show would be pulling its plug even though it is currently the nation's top-rated sitcom...
...advised acquisitions like drugmaker Sterling Winthrop, thereby cutting Kodak's $8 billion debt burden to a comfortable $1 billion. At the same time, he has greatly accelerated Kodak's once sluggish product-development cycles. "There is no self-doubt as to where the opportunities lie," says company president Daniel Carp, a 27-year Kodak veteran and Fisher's presumed heir. Nor, Carp adds, is there any lack of confidence in Kodak's ability to cash in on those opportunities or to meet Fisher's goal of increasing the company's per share profits an average of 10% annually...