Word: marginalia
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...Seinfeld of print; it's a magazine that prides itself on being about nothing. We readers have always been in search of 15 minutes of fame, 15 minutes of mindless ecstatic delight in the marginalia of our college, continually examined and undressed. Addictively, slavishly, we read FM with our eyes glazed with dim recollection, with our teeth gnashing over memories of the low-fat plum pudding bars and fish pizzaiola which Harvard Dining Services purveys. We are easily stupefied by the most clever publication around. Like the couple in Don Delillo's White Noise, who make love only...
...impassioned marginalia, Morgan's long-ago reader sided with Dudley. "As I sit here, looking into the Governor Thomas Dudley Memorial Garden. I feel that history has vindicated Dudley," his faded block capitals read. "After all, the only Harvard landmark named after Winthrop is a JOCK HOUSE...
...Those books have marginalia that is interesting to scholars studying the author," says Cole." There is no reason why the comments of an undergraduate student reading a work of scholarship might not be just as interesting...
...York City, where one-third of all U.S. magazines are launched, the slump has become a full-fledged recession. Thus the city's small, high-profile purveyors of the trendy and transient have less control over their own destinies. Details, a chronicle of downtown marginalia, was bought by S.I. Newhouse Jr.'s Conde Nast, and will be repositioned as a more mainstream men's fashion magazine. And Spy, a satirical magazine that proclaims itself "hip, but suspicious of hip," failed in a highly publicized capital drive, although it still posts slim profits. Spy hopes to hedge its bets by moving...
...free-lance. He jots dozens of private notes, reluctant to rely on dictation. He makes and takes scores of phone calls each day, talking to an army of people in and out of government, from Congressmen to civil rights leaders to cronies from the Texas oil fields. He loves marginalia: recently he extensively edited a staff memo on Soviet- American relations...