Word: digests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is anyone out there who still imagines that modernism is not the official culture of our day, not the secular religion of the U.S., this project will dispel those last illusions. The wing, named for the late co- founder of the Reader's Digest, who was the largest donor, cost $26 million to build and will require an additional $2 million a year for operating expenses. One does not go spending such amounts on the marginal and the controversial -- on what modernism used to be when the chairman of the Met's 20th century department, William S. Lieberman...
...wanders through such barren terrain in Radio Days, a series of vignettes drawn from his boyhood during the glory days of radio. Time progresses, but to no discernible end. While the vignettes are not quite incomprehensible, they certainly are not laden with meaning, either. Kind of like Reader's Digest...
...that Matthew and Luke clearly preceded Mark. Although he does not endorse either as being the first Gospel writer, the implicit result of his study is to restore Matthew to the primacy he once held in biblical studies. Mann's belief in fact is that Mark wrote a digest that combines the events of Luke and Matthew...
...same go-for-it attitude to their music. Playing at Manhattan's CBGB, the proto-punk club on the Bowery, the Heads dressed in strictly Ivy spiff, like floorwalkers from Brooks Brothers. Byrne, eyes bulging, long neck turning like a periscope, sang like a carny geek who could not digest his chicken. Then there were the songs. "Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est/ Run, run, run, run away," Byrne would blurt, contriving to sound simultaneously like the murderer and his victim. Perfect new-wave icons, then: psychotic preppies. The pure products of America in the process of going...
Public acceptance of the predicament is improving. Reader's Digest and McCall's, among other magazines, run ads for incontinence products, though Modern Maturity rejects them as not "upbeat" enough. Television networks have eased restrictions. June Allyson, whose mother has the problem, is currently appearing in TV and print ads for Depend disposable pads and undergarments. Manufacturer Kimberly-Clark estimates that sales of all such products will reach $200 million this year. Procter & Gamble's Attends, once sold only to institutions, went on sale to the public nationwide last year, after consumers urged the company to make its Pampers...