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...hour prime-time slot, the network cuts it to 97 minutes. Later, another network restores much of the footage, including half an hour of outtakes, minus the locker-room sex scene. Finally, 16mm prints are rented to film societies and revival houses, but in a TV-shaped format and with yet another title: La Cage aux Fouls...
That theory is typically enunciated in blunt, incisively written opinions, with what one legal observer calls "the best opening lines since Greta Garbo." Typically, he starts by writing a stream-of-consciousness memo, and then his clerks convert it to the standard format. Stevens' opinions may become increasingly significant. His liberal votes take on a special prominence because of the diminished influence in recent years of old-line liberals William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall. So far, his novel theories and poor salesmanship have prevented him from becoming a leader. But Stevens is well aware that many a lonely dissent...
...about $70,000 and a net worth of $650,000. Last week the Journal solved this dilemma by splitting the paper into two parts, thus raising the maximum number of pages it can print from 48 to 56 a day. The move is the paper's most radical format change in four decades. Reassuring longtime readers, Phillips promises: "There is no thought of fundamentally changing the paper...
...daily newspaper. Although senior reporters at the Journal are well paid (more than $50,000 a year in some cases), young reporters start at $16,000 and early in their careers often earn less than counterparts at other large papers. What is more, the Journal's tightly edited format prevents most reporters from getting on Page One more than once a month or so, and even when they do, bylines are small and gray. In the past, these drawbacks caused frequent defections to other publications. Says N.R. Kleinfield, who left for the New York Times: "The old joke...
...flourished in the '50s and '60s as a staid journal of politics and literature under longtime Editor Norman Cousins. In 1971 it was sold to entrepreneurs Nicolas Charney and John Veronis, who turned the magazine into four separate monthlies on arts, education, science and society. The new format was confusing to readers and financially ruinous. Saturday Review went bankrupt in 1973, and Cousins came to the rescue. He ran it for the next four years and converted it to a fortnightly. Under Tucker, the magazine added more reportage and brighter graphics. But it continued losing between...