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Also vanishing are the shock-value headlines that the old Enquirer once made infamous. Compared with "KILLS PAL AND EATS PIECES OF HIS FLESH," recent efforts like "DEMI TO WED!" seem a little pallid. And when a Star staffer member was fired recently for getting into a fracas with the L.A. police while pursuing a story, tabloid veterans shuddered. Not so long ago, the reporter might have been given a bonus...
Canny Crimson businessmen looked across Harvard Square and saw a new market, both for circulation and advertising, at Radcliffe. To Crimson editors, an old joke had staled. The portrayal of a Radcliffe girl as a female with brains but no beauty was a pallid sketch after they had seen women at work...
...WORST The Starr report. O.K., news junkies lapped it up, and TV talking heads droned on about it, but the Starr report was a pretty pallid piece of work. Wimpish hero, insecure heroine, pizza, thong underwear, a cigar. What in the world has happened to romances...
...rather than All the President's Men, I'm watching a pallid remake of Groundhog Day, the umpteenth reliving of Bill Clinton's worst 24 hours. And unlike Bill Murray, a small-market newscaster who finally gets it right, no one in this drama is changing for the better. Starr prissily boasts that he is not poll driven or part of the "talk-show circuit," despite having spent endless hours videotaping his rehearsals and, that same day, appearing on Good Morning America. Before the committee, Starr methodically recites his resume, as if who he is would serve as an explanation...
...Grim Oracle for Tech Stocks Lingering Asian flu leaves software giant Oracle looking positively pallid: the firm lost a third of its value today. Is it the first of many victims...