Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...readership (circ. 500,000 after only seven issues) probably guarantees that it will survive the Fundamentalist fire. Sandra Yates, president of Matilda Publications, the New York City company that publishes Sassy, says new advertising contracts have "virtually replaced" the revenue lost from dropped accounts. In any case, the editorial content of Sassy will evolve. November's issue will contain the article "Virgins Are Cool...
...often, even when he fights back, Dukakis' rhetoric lacks bite of ! all varieties. He seems to have adopted all too well another of the Deaveresque techniques perfected by Reagan: keep the message issueless and content-free. Through most of the week, the candidate kept being upstaged by his own warm-up speakers. Finally, last Friday, Dukakis displayed some belated fire while campaigning in Texas, when he likened Bush's posturing on the Pledge of Allegiance to McCarthyism: "Now they're attacking my patriotism, and just as they did in the 1950s, the American people can smell the garbage...
...what about those poor bald souls for whom Rogaine is not recommended? Ovid's fellow Roman, the epigrammatist Martial, may have had the best advice: "Be content to seem what you really are, and let the barber shave off the rest of your hair...
...rely on his two chief lieutenants, Richard Sarazen and Martin Singerman, for handling financial matters and administrative details, the one in charge is Murdoch. Says Investment Banker Veronis of the Triangle deal: "At our first meeting, he carefully picked up each publication, and we talked about the content and the market that the publication reached. There are very few people who are editorially astute and who have a penchant to learn about business. Murdoch is the best...
...traditionally nurtured some distinctly non-American attributes, like indolence. There have always been a good number of people who are not eager to get ahead. Even its businessmen have had a reputation for being only mildly industrious and distinctly non-entrepreneurial. New Orleans has been known as a place content to make do with its natural endowments -- a great port on the Mississippi River, and a share of the state oil money, and a reputation for wickedness and charm that drew a steady stream of tourists for decades. For most of this century, New Orleans hasn't done much more...