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Despite the tradition of glitter and enthusiasm which we assuredly will hear more about before Sunday, it's been a rough year for football. The extended strike by players took a sizeable bite out of the season, forcing the league to rearrange the playoff format and--alas--allow just one week instead of two for Super Bowl hype. Complex questions over anti-trust and eminent domain arose after the relocation of a team. And widespread reports of rampant cocaine use among players rocked the league. In short, the seamy side of football emerged this year, making clear that the game...
...including some of the best in the field, and will be broadcast from a set that is supposed to duplicate the atmosphere of a Wall Street trading room. "Our emphasis will be on credibility and content," says James C. Crimmins, 48, the TV producer who created the program. "Our format will be business insiders talking to insiders." Sample segments: corporate strategy, high technology, currency hotline...
...technology requires its technical terms, of course, but computerese also reaches out with robot arms to seize ordinary words and twist them to its own syntactical purposes. The most striking example is the forced conversion of nouns into verbs. The computer-literate person has learned to access, to format, to interface. Anyone who objects to such jargon is, to the computer literate, not merely uninformed but bletcherous...
...Wave Format," the story of Sabrina and Edwin, Mason rarely says more than is necessary to convey what Hemingway called "the real thing, the sequence of motion and fact which made the emotion." Sabrina's enthusiasms, her fennel toothpaste and herbal deodorant, leave Edwin amazed and uneasy. Self-knowledge comes hard. He dimly recalls his knockabout past and realizes that he has not been an adventurer but "has gone through life rather blindly, without much pain or sense of loss." Only on his bus is he in complete control, jolting his handicapped audience with Jim Morrison's Light...
...that is perhaps more like the Post than any other non-Murdoch daily; it features vivid sports coverage, a populist-conservative editorial page and, emblazoned across the front page, hard-selling headlines sometimes 4 in. high. (Samples: TORTURE MODEL TEEN TO DEATH; POLS TAKE CARE OF SELVES.) The tabloid format boosted circulation by 48,000. Stephen Mindich, publisher of the weekly Boston Phoenix (circ. 140,000), is an admirer: "The Herald may hype stories, but the facts are correct, and it has credibility." Advertisers, however, have not been buying. Edward Eskandarian, president of the Boston advertising agency Humphrey Browning MacDougall...