Word: editing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trust you to edit this properly. I still have a few more things to say. Very often, a chorus will save a show. A blend of voices can usually hide the missed notes. Strangely enough, this chorus fails to add much vitality to the show. Chorus numbers dragged, and I laughed at the group tap dance number...
...Harvard Crimson welcomes mail from its readers. Letters will be run as space permits. The Crimson reserves the right to edit letters for grammar and clarity, and to select a headline. All letters to the editor must be signed. Letters should be typed, triple-spaced, and mailed to The Harvard Crimson, 14 Plympton St., Cambridge, Massachusetts...
Seriously, folks, The 80s was the inspiration of Peter Elbling, 35, a director and actor. Last winter he took the idea to Christopher Cerf, 38, and Tony Hendra, 38, a pair of National Lampoon alumni who helped edit Not the New York Times, and Art Director Michael Gross, 33, another Lampoon veteran. The four men, aided by half the wits in Manhattan, brainstormed for months and recruited more than three dozen writers from such places as the Lampoon, the New York Times, Harper's, TIME, New York magazine and The New Yorker. George Plimpton wrote an unsigned parody...
...magazine's chief sportswriter got sick and Time needed someone to cover the Olympics in Montreal. Schreiber wrote three cover-length pieces in as many weeks and her name was passed around in New York's journalism circles. Later that year, she accepted Billie Jean King's offer to edit the now-defunct Women Sports magazine. When the magazine folded. Schreiber went to some of The New York Times's senior editors to convince them to hire her old staff writers...
...formal responsibilities were far broader than mine: to review and edit my written reports on price-support levels, and to keep tabs on all developments affecting domestic agricultural production. I soon discovered that his idea of keeping tabs consisted of reading a few magazines and departmental circulars. As for passing on my analyses, he concentrated mostly on perfecting my painfully learned bureaucratic jargon. So at a cost of $15,000 a year to the taxpayers, I slowly cranked out reports that Bob could have (and once had) written. Bob himself...