Word: print
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stand; GRABIT, a tiny claw set on the racquet butt for picking up single balls without bending; Lobster, one of the many mechanical tennis partners able to shoot practice balls at you every 3% seconds. Stores bulge with any or all of the several hundred tennis books now in print. (Sample title: How to Increase Your Net Value). Alluring fashion ads offer raiment ranging from the new see-through tennis dresses to maternity clothes for tennis-playing moms-to-be?along with some advice from doctors on why it is safe to play while pregnant. Also available are cute court...
...Print journalists used to pride themselves on reporting the sober but important convention decisions that the restless television cameras ignored. They found precious little to pick over this time, when primaries and advance delegate counts had correctly foretold the results, and conventions served largely to ratify the relative strengths of rival factions. As Ken Galbraith looked lankily down on the serried ranks of pressmen, few of them even taking notes, he wondered aloud how any free-enterprising businessman would regard all that time and money spent for so little result...
...McCall's, Woman's Day, Glamour and Cosmopolitan to discuss running stories on the ERA timed for the Bicentennial. The group then wrote the editors at other women's magazines asking them to join the effort. Even Chassler was impressed by the concerted response in print. Says he: "Most of the editors are women, and of course women are far more decisive than...
Beyond these and a few others, Washington columning is a dull plain -unadventuresome and predictable. Often the predictability is intended and marketed as such, the print equivalents of those televised pillow fights between Galbraith and Buckley. Mostly the designated labels...
Scum, scum, ah, yes, we were talking about Hunter Thompson. The Mad Dog of modern journalism stunned the reading public when he made The Great Leap of Faith in print and endorsed Jimmy Carter two months ago in Rolling Stone. [MORE]'s piece on the Thompson conversion not only exposes Carter's conscious seduction process, but also happens to be the finest parody ever of the bent Thompson style...