Word: column
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people were paying exorbitant ticket prices to watch me write this column in pursuit of a cool half-million-dollar first prize, I would have expected some lusty booing when I overused parentheses two paragraphs ago. I wouldn't have complained, and I really don't think their booing's effect on my concentration could have made the paragraph any worse...
...Reading those letters is a very important part of doing the job, because selecting the letters is the lifeblood of that column. If the letters aren't well selected, the column is no good. I must be alone when I read...
...Hesitated? I printed a letter on homosexuality the first year that I was writing the column, and the publisher in St. Joe, Mich., let us know that he was not running that column. He printed a box on Page One saying there would be no Ann Landers column today because she's dealing with a subject that we feel is not fit for a family newspaper. Of course, everybody in town ran to buy the Detroit Free Press to see what it was that Ann Landers was talking about that the paper wouldn't print...
...When you started the column it didn't seem that you were as quick to recommend psychotherapy...
...reflective. They aspire to a rough, Doric calm. They do not move; or when they do, it is by a slow pressure of grainy abutting edges or, in a work like No Neo, 1984, by the slight bulging of stripes against their neighbors, like the entasis of a classical column. (The title means something; Scully wanted his painting to resist the sense of recycling that pervaded the '80s, neo-this and neo-that. "The art that interests me," he says flatly, "is heroic...