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...billion annually, according to a recent survey. Openly gay men in full-time jobs earn $18,000 a year more than the male national average; among lesbians, the premium is $12,000. (It's a similar story in France, too.) Hence, for advertisers - whether dreaming up mainstream publicity fit for a gay audience, or appealing directly via gay media - it's cool to think pink. "This is an important market [with] good levels of disposable income," says a spokesman for British Airways, whose ads - like the one marking its commitment to EuroPride '06 - appear in gay media both in print...
...also accused Fowler-Finn of manipulating data to fit his ends—a charge Nolan has been accused of herself by some of Fowler-Finn’s supporters, including Cambridge Civic Journal proprietor Robert Winters...
...best preparation for that all-important personality test may well be a college career spent playing poker and doing tequila shots. An Atlanta woman I interviewed, a skilled website writer, was fired without explanation after a few weeks at a job. "I tried to fit in," she told me. "I went to lunch with the guys, but all they talked about was sports, which I know nothing about, and they all seemed to know each other from college." Poor thing, she had probably wasted her college years in the library...
...difference is that, in the late '40s and early '50s, mainstream culture was still defined by the standards of good taste, whatever that is. Usually it meant congratulating a work of fiction for its modernist notions and humanist politics. That wouldn't fit Spillane at all; his novels were, arguably, post-humanist. No tastemaker admitted to enjoying the pulps, though they contained some of the most vigorous writing around. Few critics defended Spillane, even to establish their contrarian credentials by going against the genteel grain. (Spillane's one cheerleader among serious novelists was Ayn Rand, a dogmatic right-winger. That...
Robert Winters, the proprietor of the online Cambridge Civic Journal, confronted Nolan at the end of the meeting, heatedly accusing her of “cherry-picking statistics” to “fit her agenda” of undermining Fowler-Finn. He did not specify which statistics painted a better picture of the district’s achievement...