Word: editoral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Swamp Thing, the plantlike hero of a DC Comics series for adults, is taking an involuntary vacation. Swamp Thing had been traveling through time in recent issues, meeting personalities ranging from Adolf Hitler to King Arthur. But an encounter with Jesus of Nazareth has proved too provocative. DC's editor in chief, Jenette Kahn, canceled the June issue (No. 88), in which Swamp Thing appears at the Garden of Gethsemane bearing the Holy Grail. Said Kahn: "We believed that the story concept would be offensive to many of our readers...
...book, however, quickly loses both its focus and its credibility when Fallows starts writing about himself. Fallows, a former Crimson editor and the Washington editor of The Atlantic Monthly, is an interesting person. The stories he tells about his parents moving to California when he was a child would make fascinating material for an autobiography. But it's not really clear why they are in this book, the ostensible purpose of which is to show how America differs culturally from Japan...
...Editorial Staff: Michael L. Gordon '91 Melissa R. Hart '91 Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Joseph R. Palmore '91 Michael D. Stankiewicz '91 Lisa A. Taggart '91 Business Staff: Julie Y. Chen '91 Elizabeth S. Hilton '92 Raymond Nomizu '91 Timothy R. Paydos '92 Steven M. Zang '90 Photo Editor: Sandra Coudert...
...boyfriend from hell lived in Kirkland House B-31. The sports editor from hell lived in Lowell B-31. And in Mass. Hall B-31 one of my roommates had a night from hell. But I can't tell you about that...
...learn a lot of things--not just aboutwriting, but about working with people. It waskind of like a trial run for future days in TheReal World. After surviving a 5 a.m. Press runwith a sexist managing editor standing over myshoulder. I felt capable of facing just aboutanything...