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...packaging of the modern populist goes beyond the early morning family jogs memorialized on the cover of Newsweek. What Carter had in 1976 and Bush has in 1980 is a young, enthusiastic organization that started early in Iowa and capitalized on that state's affection for down-to-earth, visible politicians. After Iowa, the press blessed Carter with its bewitching potion, momentum. Bush now tastes the same nectar. In fact, he chortles that he has cornered the market on the stuff...
...decade both would be screened in colleges and universities as examples of fine filmmaking. Even the pornography of the '60s seemed puerile by '70s standards as magazines and films sought to reveal ever more; nudity, once restricted to Playboy, paraded in full-color on the pages of Time and Newsweek when streaking raged across the country, and thereafter as often as possible without violating some vague notion of "decency." Playboy itself committed the unthinkable, publishing the women of the Ivy League, and a host of competitors still criticized it as tame and conventional...
...losses on." The book is well indexed, cross-referenced and divided into discrete subject areas; each chapter assumes the reader has not read the others. Quinn covers the usual ground of budgeting, investing, saving, home buying, divorce and burial. Her 101 pages on life insurance are especially valuable. The Newsweek columnist and television reporter analyzes and compares the bewildering array of policies and options. Term insurance, she advises, is usually the best policy for young families...
After graduating from Radcliffe in 1963, Goodman worked as a Newsweek researcher and later a Detroit Free Press reporter before joining the Globe as a feature writer in 1967. The Globe let her write a few opinion pieces and in 1972 made her a regular columnist, first in the Living section and then on the editorial page. Says Anne Wyman, the Globe's editorial-page editor: "At the beginning, I thought she was rather shrill. She's become much more thoughtful, much more serious, also much more compassionate." Goodman is not a columnist who strives for Delphic detachment...
Hercules asked Arnold if it bothered him that lots of his fans were homosexuals--it bothered Hercules, the specter of a dark room full of hungry queens had kept him from ever seeing "Pumping Iron." "I don't think it bothers Newsweek that homosexuals buy Newsweek." Arnold was, of course, being openminded, a treacherous attitude for an existentialist. Hercules respected...