Word: mag
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well actually, if truth were to be known it as neither dark nor stormy this past Tuesday as Erica and I tried to put our very first (and in all probability last) mag issue to beddie-bye, but hell, literary references seem to be a dime a dozen these days, and besides, we felt dark and stormy on our insides. The Crimson doesn't have any windows, and this mag was rapidly turning into the sort of perpetual crisis that destroys marriages and causes previously sane individuals to spend the rest of their days in a "rest home...
...eponymous mag for over-40 women folds with April issue
...send your our tunes, should we send you our Simpsons or our Partridges" department the newest nationally circulated college mag. The Link, arrived in dorms around the country this week. Their music reviews, curiously enough, are rated according to a sliding family-sitcom scale; this week, every album reviewed scored a "Brady" or above (the highest rating is "Simpson," the lowest rating is "Cleaver"). FM guessed that the albums were judged according to what sort of families would listen to them, with the Simpsons tuning in to Elvis Costello and the Partridges preferring the intense emotion of Tori Amos...
...addition to their mix-and-match approach to different forms of entertainment. The Link seemed to jump at every chance to show they're on the cutting edge of both media culture and digital communications. The Link advertises itself on the bottom of many pages as "LINK digital mag." One blurb reads: "Want to read more reviews, tour dates, release schedules, vote for your fave new CD?" Another urges readers to "Be the mag at 317-465-9455...or spin us some messages at editor@linkmag.com (And if you're playin' in the band, send us your tunes...
What the novel must avoid is the opposite of the dehumanization of the victim of AIDS. The other characters in Diary of a Lost Boyare reduced almost to satire, in their names (the Deds, the magazine editor Mag, Bill's girlfriend Shush, for instance) and in their banality (Mag calls to tell Hecetor that her assistant Joseph has died from the disease, but that she doesn't see it as just "a lot of rotten luck," but "as a doorway into the New Age"). But if the cast surrounding Hector approaches satire, it is perhaps as his situation dictates. They...