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...paper the next day, there was a three paragraph brief entitled "Suspects Troubled Past". Beatrice was quoted only as saying her son "spent a troubled youth." None of the readers could see the absolute poverty that this woman was experiencing on the west side of Harlem. The short article masked the airtight trap...
After graduating from Princeton in 1977 (and getting his own pep talk from author and former TIME writer John McPhee, with whom he took a journalism class), Jim came to TIME. He started out writing Milestones, where he learned that a life story could be told in a paragraph if necessary. He went on to handle slightly longer pieces in the Nation, World and Press sections, and became World editor in 1988. Last fall Jim was named assistant managing editor, overseeing a variety of sections, including Nation, Law, Education, Books and Interview...
...cozy little cafes near their homes and Pearlman and Henderson spare no words communicating the picayune domestic details of their surroundings. Their voyeuristic glee at seeing Godwin's indoor pool or overhearing one of Fischer's personal telephone conversations is embarrassing. Italics and exclamation points abound. The opening paragraph of Pearlman's interview with Erdrich is only one salient sample...
...months before Gary Hart challenged the moralistic conventions of political behavior and paid the price for his apostasy, he wrote a mini- autobiography designed, apparently, to portray himself as normal. The last paragraph read: "The immortal Yeats wrote, 'Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with.' As usual," Hart concluded, "Yeats put it right. A man would be a fool to take his luck for granted." Thus, in his own words, the fallen candidate's political epitaph: Gary Hart -- fool...
Note the four times that "sic" is used in the following paragraph. Could this "four sic" really mean "forensic," an oblique reference to the Kennedy autopsy report which has been suppressed by the military-industrial-Lampoon-CIA-FBI-Cuban-Communist-AALARM-LBJ-Mafia-BCCI-Nixon-Rudenstine coup d'etat elite (a massive conspiracy organization which has seized control of our government and at this time consists of just about everyone except Oliver Stone, Jim Garrison, Kevin Costner and a few people in Dubuque...