Word: paged
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...next page you'll find a larger Index, designed to let you know promptly what is in the magazine every week. the new Interview section will probe some of the personalities who influence the course of history and thought. American Ideas will bring you closer to people who are not household names but who do make a difference. Critics' Choice will present a convenient and more complete summary of our reviewers' judgments. the expanded People section is, well, just more fun. in all of this, our aim is to find new ways to offer you more information, more quickly...
...making these improvements, we have been guided by one principle that does not change: TIME is above all a newsmagazine. as Luce and Hadden understood from the beginning, news is much more than what appears on the front page. a president's decision is, of course, news, as is an earthquake or a coup in a distant land. but news is also an advance in medicine, a success (or a failure) in business, a controversy over a movie. News is an environmental trend, a cultural happening, a book that tells a story never told before, an idea seldom so well...
...talented, but his skills are quirky and obsessive, perhaps more mesmerizing to him than to casual spectators. There is Innocence, for example, which contains what is probably the longest description of oral sex in the history of literature. (This story decidedly did not appear in The New Yorker.) For page after page a Harvard undergraduate named Wiley tries to bring his stubbornly unresponsive girlfriend to orgasm: "The whitish bubbling, the splash of her discontinuous physical response: those waves, ah, that wake rose, curled outward, bubbled, and fell. Rose, curled outward, bubbled, and fell." Little in this prose marathon is particularly...
...hope you have already read the letter from managing editor Henry Muller on the opening page of this issue. In it, he discusses the ideas behind the innovations you will notice as you read the magazine. Let me go one step further and describe some of the specific stories that illustrate these changes...
...would make his plans known. The night before the ad was scheduled to air, White approached Peter Lucas, a columnist for the Boston Herald, and told him he intended to run for reelection. Citing as a source "a close friend" of White's, the Herald ran a front-page story with a banner headline, "White Will Run." White had never intended to run, and used his commercial as a farewell to the people of Boston, gaining great satisfaction by getting revenge on Lucas, who had long been a critic of his administration...