Word: paged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Culture has not remained the exclusive domain of Moscow intellectuals. On the Arbat pedestrian mall, would-be Pushkins and Pasternaks peddle their autographed poetry for a ruble or more a page. Sunday painters in Izmailovo Park display their labored tributes to the Russian futurists, suprematists and constructivists of the early 20th century. More than 200 experimental studio theaters have sprouted in Moscow alone. The cultural explosion has been felt as far away as the Pacific port of Nakhodka, where local artists set up a puppet theater workshop, and in Yaroslavl in the Soviet heartland, scene of a rollicking street festival...
...show has brought Rizzo national recognition. The former mayor earned a blurb in Time magazine. And earlier this week Rizzo found his way onto the front page of the Boston Globes's Living/Arts section in a full-page feature article...
Kicker on the front page of the St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch Thursday...
Several days later, they published a "news analysis" that seemed to imply that newspapers were above such criticism. The news piece, which included statements better suited for an editorial page, was so unprofessional that the paper ran an editor's note the following day, retracting most of the article...
...types of telemarketing cons are being hatched overnight, sometimes abetted by front-page news that provides a convincing sales pitch. After the 1987 stock-market crash shook investor confidence in securities, con artists began pushing such alternatives as rare coins, gold, oil and gas leases, and diamonds. One Tulsa-based telemarketing company cleaned up by selling shares in a "secret process" for converting volcanic sand on Costa Rican beaches into gold. A swindler who had been convicted of selling shares in a nonexistent gold mine continued to solicit new investors from a pay phone in his Wyoming prison...