Word: formative
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debt-ridden and desperate KROQ in Pasadena, Calif., broke the bland playlist. Its new format: then unknown bands like Britain's Duran Duran and the rockabilly Stray Cats (both now megagroups). The reversal was quick. When Berlin's Pleasure Victim played on the station, a surprising 25,000 copies were sold locally. Now KROQ is the No. 1 rock station in the large Los Angeles radio market. Says then Program Director Rick Carroll, who now advises ten other stations on strategy: "I sensed that there was a big audience out there looking for something of their own. Music...
...format is that of a magazine show, a video descendant of the starry-eyed Hollywood "fanzines" of the 1940s and '50s. Accompanied by music that sounds like game-show themes speeded up to 78 r.p.m., the show revels in glitzy, vertigo-inducing computer graphics. Says E.T. Director Steve Hirsen, a veteran of CBS News: "We're not heavy journalists, so we have more freedom. We can use visual flips and 'up' music, which you can't use after a story on the bombing of Beirut." The rapid-fire items are introduced by Anchors Ron Hendren...
...This format gives Percy broad license for commentary, the most trenchant presented in a theological framework. Painters and sculptors, for example, are the Roman Catholics of art, their tools and materials are sacramental objects. Writers are the Protestants, working alone in a bare room with only a pencil, "like God's finger touching Adam...
This spring a transfer student resurrected Padan Aram, changing it from its previous tabloid format to that of a small, bound magazine. Eric-Steven Guttierez '84 hopes to make Padan Aram a more vibrant presence in the Harvard Community...
...idea is to have an unintimidating format, and to encourage people to be creative," says Naomi L. Pierce '85, editor of the Blue Book. Other editors of house journals wanted to help writers get published in a less competitive format. "Ours is really an anti-literary magazine," says Antoinette Reed '83, who edited...