Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jones had visited Cambodia briefly in September 1980, in part on assignment for TIME. (The Khmer Rouge confirmed last week that he had made this trip.) A five-paragraph account of Jones' visit appeared in TIME's Asian editions in October 1980, along with a longer story by a TIME correspondent who toured the country at the same time...
More damning was a paragraph in which Jones described an old blind man "chanting the Ramayana, a part of Cambodia's cultural heritage, as he twanged a primitive guitar." Cockburn produced an almost identical passage from André Malraux's novel about his Cambodian travels in 1923 and 1924, La Voie Royale. Reckoned the Voice writer...
...Harvard Lampoon issued it first-ever parody of The Crimson, a stinging sheet playing on the stolid greyness that was the paper's hallmark in its early days. The lead story discussed in excruciating detail the replacement of one oarsman with another; buried beneath it was a one-paragraph item headlined "A Dangerous Attempt." A passerby, the item informed readers, had noticed a lighted fuse attached to Memorial Hall; at its end was enough pieric acid not only to "wreck" Memorial Hall but also to damage some adjacent buildings. Another paragraph or two describes the relese of deadly diphtheria, cholera...
That the editor's analysis is either superficial or inaccurate (or both) is clearly seen. In the one paragraph that does manage to discuss the article, the misleads readers with his interpretation and quotes. He says the Atlantic Monthly article "describes in chilling terms just whom the [Reagan economic] plan benefits--the 'hogs' of American big business were 'really feeding' on a diet of special tax breaks." In fact the article referred to Stockman's disillusionment with special interests, not the ominous "big business" the Crimson writer imagines. To quote directly from the article's next sentence, "Stockman...
Cambridge Express may well be successful; its higher-ups insist they are well ahead of all their financial objectives. If they are, it is damning proof of how totally historical the Phoenix's 15-year retrospective really is. There is one great paragraph in the current Express--part of a scenario about two people who meet an automatic money machine. "My impression is that if these two had met five, or certainly, ten years ago, their genuine passion would have reflected a public spirit which suggested that what was worth wanting was worth attempting. Presently, they have encountered a public...