Word: paragraphed
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Until East/West came along, in-flight magazines were generally soporific collections of restaurant hosannas, travel columns and self-serving airline news. Says Butler: "Passengers felt cheated. They'd pick up a story about bananas, but by the third paragraph they'd be reading about how many bananas the airline carried in its cargo hold...
...mean, "Do you think I'm sexy," was the most harmless question any song posed all day yesterday. Anyway, this last paragraph ties into the closing because tonight's stop on the hoopster's road trip is Philadelphia, the city of Brotherly Love...
Predictions like that are merely provocative fantasies, I admit - whimsical futurism. It could happen, or not. I am brought to the fantasy because I have been staring at the New York Times' endorsement of Hillary Clinton for the Senate - an extraordinary 13-paragraph exercise that takes up almost all of Sunday's editorial space. I have been studying the editorial as if it were a Polaroid snapshot, the film just exposed, still wet and murky, but with certain outlines starting to come clear...
...composed the panel, with a male moderator. The Crimson article was written by a male. Each panelist spoke for the same amount of time. Yet the only panelist named was the only man. The only panelist quoted, four times, was the only man. His remarks were given four paragraphs, whereas the four women were relegated to a single paragraph--un-named, un-described, and un-defined by the article. The only other person mentioned in the article by name was the male moderator...
Four plays and five yards later, Lynch connected for the winning field goal, but a paragraph before, our story went sour. Bob McDermott was killed in a tragic fire last summer. Another teammate, Andy Puopolo, died a month after he was fatally injured in a November '76 Combat Zone knifing incident...