Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is a framed photograph in the coach's office at the Palmer Dixon Tennis Courts which shows Rob Wheeler sipping champagne from a silver cup at courtside after a major tournament victory...
...particularly poignant photograph in the magazines shows as emaciated and shoddily else home. Overlooking the scene, in the background, stands a great billboard depicting cigarette-smoking business executives clothed in expensive suits; their brand of cigarette, the sign announces, is "the brand for the Very Important Person." According to the World Health Organization, advertising in the Third World... offers the fulfillment of three main aspirations; unity, social status, and sex-role identification." Virility is smokiness' promoted and accepted result...
Perhaps the most unsettling entry of all is ironically a subscription ad for Football News weekly which offers the same magazines. "Call NANCY in our Circulation Department," the ad says, referring to an alluring bare-shouldered woman's photograph set apart from the ad's copy. According to Nancy's replacement at the other end of toll-free line, Nancy "hasn't worked here for some time. And also according to the faceless female voice, Nancy left no forwarding address, even for the purpose of a discussion about football magazines and the Super Bowl...
...year after C.Z. came out, Brenda Frazier became "America's No. 1 Glamour Deb." Her name and photograph were everywhere during 1938, including the cover of LIFE, and there was a backlash: people would sometimes hiss when she walked into a restaurant. Frazier died last May-after a nervous breakdown, two marriages and a notoriously messy liaison with a titled Italian playboy-still bitter about her overwhelming deb year. "Brenda Frazier was my parents' friend," Cornelia says. "So sad. But I don't want to read about her until I get older...
...later, there is a photograph of Cornelia in the Post, with a caption certifying again that she is "deb of the year...