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...cover, a Herb Ritts photo of Cindy Crawford decked out as a bare-navel George Washington, could put off anyone--it's an image that doesn't so much suggest a new and insouciant political magazine as it does a Bicentennial-era issue of Cosmopolitan. Fortunately, George is mostly uphill from there. One piece analyzes the leaking styles of various Clinton Administration officials; another offers a wonderful series of photos from New Hampshire in which a Pete Wilson operative snatches a BOB DOLE button off the shirt of a child who is posing with the Californian...
Marisa Bowe, editor of a new publication called Word, is the first to admit it isn't for everyone. "We don't have any movie or CD reviews," she says. "No celebrities. No Cindy Crawford. None of the usual product-pushing, hypey stuff." Nor is Word bothered--as its writers pursue such burning questions as "Do rock-'n'-roll musicians ever actually experience sexual rejection?"--by the usual constraints of paper, printing or distribution costs. Word goes straight from editor to reader without sacrificing any trees...
...often hilarious. He goes to see Nanook of the North, Robert Flaherty's classic 1922 documentary about Eskimos, and decides he wants to design only fur pants. He interviews hopeful models, although when his show finally opens, he seems to have hired only superstars like Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford. Working with Eartha Kitt, who wears his finery when she performs, he nuzzles her overwrought lapdog and remarks, "It's almost impossible to have any style at all without the right dogs...
...then on, they proposed, only chickens whose internal temperature had never fallen below 26 degrees could be sold as fresh. It was a valiant effort -- and it died quickly. The National Broiler Council, the poultry-industry trade association dominated by Tyson Foods, "raised all kinds of hell," recalls Lester Crawford, who ran the federal food-safety service at the time. "Given their political muscle, we reverted to the idiotic, unsupportable zero-degree rule almost instantly. Twenty-six degrees wasn't the rule even...
...their relationship decayed. The department demanded that Katona turn in an old Bucyrus police chief's badge that his father had bought for him at a gun show. The department claimed it had been stolen long ago from another collector. When Katona refused, he was forced to resign. Meanwhile, Crawford County sheriff Ronny Shawber had persuaded almost all the county's police chiefs to agree to a moratorium on authorizing machine-gun purchases. Beran agreed. In August 1989 he wrote to Katona: "Dear Louis, I'm sorry, but I am not signing these forms any longer." Over the next...