Word: editor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...America is discovering another, the heroine of an enormously hyped novel called Bridget Jones's Diary, by British author Helen Fielding. The book, a best seller in England for months, is a sometimes funny but ultimately monotonous chronicle of a year in the life of an unmarried thirtysomething London editor whose thoughts never veer far from dating, the cocktail hour and her invariably failed attempts at calorie cutting. A typical Bridget reflection: "Cannot face thought of going to work. Only thing that makes it tolerable is thought of seeing Daniel again, but even this is inadvisable since am fat, have...
Walter Isaacson, Managing Editor...
...beasts. Bass's theme, however--humanity as a curse on nature--isn't quite realized in the unlikely person of a ruthless oil prospector called Old Dudley. And the author's habit of delivering long, italic nature lectures is windy self-indulgence. The dust jacket should bear a sign: EDITOR NEEDED, APPLY WITHIN...
...their desires has become fiercely competitive. American Girl, Teen Beat and Tiger Beat have the younger age bracket sewn up. The median age of a Tiger Beat reader is 13, but girls as young as eight are snatching up the magazine. "Our readership is getting younger," says Louise Barile, editor of Tiger Beat. "It just goes back to girls' growing up faster. When they begin to get interested in boys, they graduate to other magazines...
...each of Twist's five issues has sold 20% more copies than the previous one; and Jump boasts a circulation of 350,000. "We use girls with all body types and races to make the point of not shooting unrealistic images of beauty and thinness," says Christina Ferrari, managing editor of TEEN PEOPLE (a Time Inc. publication). The June/July issue features the 21 hottest people under 21 as well as an article about a 21-year-old stunt woman and a guide to the favored products of such stars as Drew Barrymore. For its part, Jump has focused on athletics...