Word: newsprint
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...COULD a Berkowitz kill a Moskowitz?" the interviewer asks Shelley Duvall as they find their table in a New York restaurant. The latest issue of Andy Warhol's Interview continues in this tasteless vein for 48 pages of newsprint that would like to be glossy, and contains gossip that would like to be sophisticated. It ends up sounding like People magazine, except that artsy condescension replaces human interest...
Such righteousness does not come cheap. The L.A. Times, for instance, carried $1 million in porn-palace ads in the past year, and the New York Times grossed $750,000. But publishers are growing weary of watching their entertainment pages become newsprint versions of Times Square, and of being constantly outsmarted by porn princes. "They brought it on themselves," says C.K. McClatchy, editor of the Sacramento and Fresno Bees. "We tried to police them, but it got too tough. They always had a gimmick." One theater, McClatchy recalls, submitted an ad featuring a woman singing into what appeared...
...middle-aged kid rummaging through the old baseball cards in his musty attic. Kahn's latest work has no purpose, nostalgic or otherwise; rather, it is a random collection of essays, each designed to illuminate a different facet of the game. And while the cheesy smell of old newsprint may be gone, along with the saintly aura that decades-old newsreel film seems to lend the athletes of a bygone era, there is still enough magic left in Kahn's writing to draw the reader into an account of the "new" game. Each chapter is an absorbing vignette, a lucid...
...outside their door, and for the first three weeks they lived in Winthrop House, to these were added yesterday's Times, Globe, etc., because their entry mates thought the box they put outside their door for the delivery boys to drop the papers into was some sort of newsprint recycling collection operation. This ended when Bell, after working his way manfully through what he termed "that mad dog fascist, William Safire's column" for the second day in a row by mistake, rigged a microphone he had stolen the previous spring from the Loeb into their 45 watt JBL speakers...
...world in narrow columns that keeps the feathers compact and flat. Sentences tend to dart rather than gyrate. Effects are sought with tone and timing; ironies are implied, not spelled out. Anyone who has followed Joan Didion's career as a magazine writer can easily discern the newsprint between her fine lines. Slouching Towards Bethlehem, a collection of her best magazine work, brought wide praise in 1968. With the publication of her novel Play It As It Lays in the summer of 1970, Didion established herself as a distinctive voice in American writing. Hers was a lean, laconic voice...