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...weeks ago, the Office for the Arts gave $400 to a soft sculpture project, $150 to a fashion show and $70 to a group performing a "Halloween orchestral reading." They rejected the application from Jerk, the new humor magazine we edit...
This week TIME AUSTRALIA, the South Pacific edition we established with a Melbourne-based editorial staff in 1986, comes under the stewardship of a new editor, Michael Gawenda. Michael has been on a working visit to New York City for the past three weeks, helping edit articles for our other international editions and discussing South Pacific coverage plans with me and with Karsten Prager, the managing editor of TIME International. "Specifically, we want to widen coverage of the region by devoting more space to New Zealand and the emerging island nations in our area," Michael explains. "That will also allow...
Michael takes over from Jeff Penberthy, TIME AUSTRALIA's founding editor, who is stepping back at his own request to become Gawenda's principal deputy. Although Jeff will remain closely involved with TIME AUSTRALIA, helping conceive and edit stories, he intends to devote more time to a young family; his third and fourth children were born during his years at the editor's helm. Eventually, as Jeff told me a few months ago, the clasping and yelling at his knee every morning seemed to be drowning out all the other squeals for attention. "Michael has produced much of the edition...
...government major, I have to write papers about politics every week. At The Crimson, I have to edit columns about politics every day. John Locke, OMB, David Souter, ICBM, Richard Pipes, NRA. It gets tiresome. Where's the poetry? Where's the color? Where's the innovation...
...Americans whose shoulders have sprouted camcorders over the past five years are happy just to point their whirring lenses at anything that moves -- drooling babies, blushing brides, cops beating up the citizenry. But in the great rush to see their lives replayed on TV, who can be bothered to edit the gems they have recorded? Result: the world's greatest collection of truly awful videotapes -- a vast library of raw footage even more droning and banal than the reality it purports to document...