Word: ink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...failing bilingual weekly outside Montreal for $1,500. He eventually parlez-voused it into an empire of 20 tacky Canadian newspapers, 22 magazines (most of them sold in the U.S., including the [ikes of Boxing Illustrated and Pioneer West), eight printing plants and an ink-making concern. The firm, Quebecor Inc., had sales last year of $104 million and is listed on the American Stock Exchange. Péadeau (or "Pile-o-dough," as he is sometimes called in Canada) blew into Philadelphia only three months ago, quietly hired a staff of 50 local journalists and rented typewriter space...
...modest Warsaw apartment three intellectuals lean intently over a small worktable. One man places a sheet of blank paper over an ink-impregnated flannel cloth that is taped over a typed stencil. Another man quickly rolls an old-fashioned washing-machine wringer down the page from top to bottom. A woman deftly lifts the sheet with a pair of tweezers and lays it on top of a pile on the floor. The printed pages, produced at the rate of 700 an hour, would later be laboriously collated, bound by hand, and delivered to readers of Opinia, an underground monthly published...
...Murder Ink: The Mystery Reader's Companion. "Perpetrated" by Dilys Winn (Workman Publishing; 522 pages; $14.95 hardcover, $7.95 paper). For devotees of mysteries, thrillers and spy stories, this is the unputdownable reference work and ultimate argument settler. How many of those "little gray cells" did Hercule Poirot have? (One trillion.) Nero Wolfe's actual weight? (One-seventh of a ton.) Which British poet laureate and which U.S. President wrote murder stories? (C. Day Lewis and Abraham Lincoln.) With 150 contributions about crime writers, cops, critics, scientists, ex-spies, a stoolie, a butler who didn...
...brilliantly detailed wood engravings that grant My Village the aura of a rare antique rescued from some forgotten attic. David Macaulay has won an international reputation without being able to draw believable people. What he can draw-churches, cities, pyramids-he does better than any other pen-and-ink illustrator in the world. His previous books have examined the construction and administration of those structures; Castle (Houghton Mifflin; $8.95) once again goes through a brick-by-brick assembly, employing crosshatches and thin black lines to evoke a medieval place and period...
...sweater, opting for what he describes as a bluer hue of red or magenta. Magenta was originally selected as the team color for Harvard on January 24, 1873 before Crimson was later adopted. By the way, the word "glowing" in Sadow's poem should be printed in "purple-crimson" ink...