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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Turning Show Biz into News | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aliens | 6/20/1983 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Merin G. Wexler, | Title: Using Some Poetic Licence | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Merin G. Wexler, | Title: Using Some Poetic Licence | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

...television program would be departure from the Lampoon's traditional magazine parody format. But after the success of recent Lampoon spoofs of "People" and "Newsweek," "the market's a little tight," Conan O'Brien '85, the Lampoon's president said, adding, "Lots of people are doing parodies. So we thought we'd experiment...and get into the wonderful world of television...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampy's Funny | 6/8/1983 | See Source »

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