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...bald-domed, haystack-haired), word combinations (Nobelman, cinemaddict), neologisms (tycoon, socialite) and inverted sentences. Although that approach changed long ago, style, in a different sense of the word, remains vital to the magazine. Maintaining TIME's linguistic standards and revising them when necessary are the responsibility of the Copy Desk. Says Copy Chief Susan Blair: "Our main concern is to make the magazine as easy as possible to read. We don't want to throw the reader any curves...
...Copy Desk also assesses the evolution of usage in the U.S. A current priority is to eliminate language that is considered sexist. All but gone are such implicitly pejorative nouns as poetess, murderess, coed and comedienne. Sighs Blair: "I have tried to eliminate waitress and actress too, but we have not come that far yet." Well, each thing in its own time...
...left in the ground. Ceiling tiles on nearby buildings were peeled off, windows 450 ft. away were shattered, and 34 cars were damaged or destroyed. Captain George Silla was sitting in his office when he saw a bright yellow flash followed by an explosion. "I ducked under my desk," he said. "When I ran out of the building, there were people lying on the ground, crying and bleeding...
...publisher, fresh off the plane from Johannesburg, breezes into the office and props his feet on a desk. "The Colonel," as he likes to be called, discusses upcoming story ideas. Should next month's cover feature a new machine gun, which the Colonel himself tested in South Africa? What's the latest battlefront news from Afghanistan and El Salvador? The executive editor is there, but not the small-arms editor or the sniping-countersniping editor. The meeting soon breaks up, but not before the Colonel warns a staffer headed for Central America, "Be careful down there...
Bieber drove a four-barreled bargain. At one point last week, the 6-ft. 5-in. union chief met with Lee Iacocca in the Chrysler chairman's office in a session complete with desk pounding, raised voices and colorful language. When Bieber finally presented the new three-year contract to his ten-member U.A.W. bargaining committee, the group gave him a round of applause and approved the deal unanimously. U.A.W. leaders predicted that the rank and file would ratify the deal early this week and return promptly to work...