Word: columning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...please and the magazine publishes as it pleases. When the two pleasures coincide, something gets into print." He also turned his hand to cartoon captions ("Mother: 'It's broccoli, dear.' Child: 'I say it's spinach and I say the hell with it.' ") and to "Newsbreaks," those column-ending snippets of published gaffes, capped by New Yorker quips. A Pittsburgh paper once garbled as follows: "Gent's laundry taken home. Or serve at parties at night." White's response: "Oh, take it home...
...Kahn in his Sept. 25 editorial piecce attempts to defend President Bok and the Harvard Corporation's refusal to totally divest of South Africa-related stock, and to caricature the divestiture movement as self-righteous 'Bok-bashers.' It is striking that nowhere in four column feet of text is there any reference to South African conditions nor any mention of the expressed will of the oppressed majority. Kahn's ignorance of these can be the only reason for his myopic analysis...
...ones to pay the heaviest price if a ratings deal is struck. "A lot of my records would have been banned or stickered under this system," says Randy Newman. "Even without it, a lot of my stuff has been kept off the radio." Fogerty recalls reading a newspaper column attacking one of his loveliest Creedence Clearwater Revival tunes, Lookin' Out My Back Door, because the writer thought a line about a lawn was a reference to smokable grass...
However, in a restless quest for the truth, I decided to approach a sociologist, which is an academic term meaning "no fun at parties"--but none of this species was available for comment, with attribution, for this column...
leader. A new column appears under the Pope' s by- line...