Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most annoying is Cosell's chapter on Monday Night Football. He constantly describes the telecast as something that transcends sport, a program which had to appeal to more than just the Bud-toting football fan, but also to wives, children, students, and occasional sports fans. Cosell, according to Cosell, was of course the key ingredient to that recipe, and Frank Gifford, O.J. Simpson, and Don Meredith were just a bunch of dumb jocks thrown in the booth as personal favors from Roone Arledge. Cosell even has the gall to say that the only reason Gifford still...
...Chief Charles P. Jackson and Picture Editor Arnold Drapkin. If their years of service are added together, Jackson and Drapkin have been around 19 years longer than the magazine itself, which turned 62 last March. Their rise from office boys to positions of honor and responsibility adds a gratifying chapter to Horatio Alger lore...
Zinner's recurring suggestions for prevention of specific STDs are of little help. After each chapter on a different STD (he covers more than 25 different varieties), Zinner recommends ways of preventing the disease. But he inevitably reverts to saying something such as "little is known about the disease, and therefore prevention is hard to suggest," or he advocates the use of condoms (which are only protective of the areas of the penis that they cover...
...current initiative is the latest chapter in Marius's ongoing campaign to make writing a higher priority at Harvard. It was intended to prevent undergraduates' prose from deteriorating after Expos, Marius's associates said...
...CHAPTER-SKETCHES of "Mr. Palomar" compose a fancy scheme for all possible permutations of human experience. At the end of the book, Calvino decides to let the Reader in on his secret. He has thrown in an "Index" at the end of a collection of stories. The index looks like a table of contents in which Calvino reveals that what had seemed like a zigzag wandering from beach to shop to zoo is actually a highly formalized pattern. Calvino assigns to each chapter a combination of the numbers one, two, and three, like the combination of a lock. Each number...