Word: marginalia
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...should have left it to someone else to explain how people can organize the overflow of data that saturates contemporary life. Information Anxiety is an intermittently diverting self-help guide, Megatrends crossed with What Color Is Your Parachute? But it is more a collage than a book -- with digressive marginalia, diagrams, stray factoids and snatches of autobiography...
Historians of presidential dress and eating habits take note: Anwar Sadat has an aversion to shellfish and dinner jackets. Marginalia in the great sweep of international affairs, of course, but such items were priorities for the White House staff as it planned last week's double date for Anwar, Jihan, Ronnie and Nancy. It was the first state dinner in the Reagan Administration at which men wore business suits instead of black tie. Not a shrimp or crab claw was to be seen. But the Reagans' high style was very much in evidence, reinforcing their reputation...
...Wasteland, all that is left to do is pick it apart into ashes and let them scatter about in modernist prose, hoping that something new and different will happen. In Box Man every conceivable "new" technique is used--from describing the color of ink used in the marginalia, printed verbatim, to a fight between the box man and his fictitious alter-ego about who is the real narrator of the story...
Nearly all of the important Watergate revelations, and the marginalia as well, have been "source stories"?articles drawn from anonymous investigators of, or participants in, the scandals. The sources have usually been, as reported, "reliable," "knowledgeable," "highly placed" or otherwise certified adjectivally as credible. The use of unattributed stories makes the press vulnerable. Editorialists across the country demand that Nixon reveal all his secret conversations while at the same time insisting that journalists have the right to total confidentiality. The apparent double standard seems all the more blatant when newspapers become preachy on the issue. Last summer, during...
Apart from the evidence it provides about the President's critical conversations, the edited transcript furnishes a potpourri of marginalia that limn the style and character of the Nixon White House. A representative sampler...