Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...time at The Crimson, I’m very glad to leave behind the journalistic grind. I cannot possibly convey in words the violent frustration one feels when a computer crashes and deletes a nearly-finished article an hour before deadline. I can’t express in newsprint how horrible it is to be awake at four in the morning editing what will be that morning’s content, all the while worrying about the history paper that awaits unfinished on the laptop back home. Not to mention all those weekends that were spent travelling to cover sporting...
Crimson editors over the decades have made some memorable attempts to capture exam period in newsprint. The following op-ed, “Beating the System,” won the Dana Reed Prize for undergraduate writing in 1951. The Crimson proudly ran it every reading period until 1962, when it irked one maligned and anonymous grader enough to reply...
...possibility of re-establishing a positive credit rating and even earning real income. Since I want to avoid having to shuffle all that new cash into legal fees, I’m apologizing to people I may have insulted in the hundreds of stories and thousands of inches of newsprint I’ve produced in the past four years...
...crowd at the opening, tagged with labels that read “with us” on one side and “against us” on the other. A young woman nicknamed “Media Frenzy” chatted with the audience in her slashed newsprint wig and dress, and “Miss Homeland USA” strutted around in camouflage hot pants, explaining that she was the USO girl of the future—when America would be in the seventh year of its “holy crusade” against the rest...
...snap and swing - movement, like a jump-rope at top speed. Millions of lines over 80 years, and not one had an inappropriate stroke. There was drama in the contrast of those black lines on a white page - a bit less when it was reprinted on the Times' gray newsprint. Which is why you should look at his work in book form: the handsomely illustrated autobiography "Hirschfeld On Line," or, for about the price of a manicure, the Gotham-glorifying "Hirschfeld's New York" and the all-movie "Hirschfeld's Hollywood...