Word: printing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...small publishing firm and retired to Florida. For him, the sale was an occasion of satisfaction without sentiment."I hate nostalgia," he said, "but I've made a hell of a living from it." So have his successors, who have continued to make the Bettmann credit line ubiquitous in print. Now a few taps on the computer keyboard will bring it to the screen. That prospect pleases the 92-year-old Bettmann, who pronounced himself delighted "to have seen my original acorn nourished and cultivated into a formidable digitized...
...PRINT DRESS WHOSE NECKLINE dips well below the level of propriety, Julie Johnson takes a few dainty steps to the front of the stage, sucks a little more oxygen into her grand bosom and singes the audience with I Do What I Can (with What I Got), a torchy tune about the advantages and imperatives of being a knockout babe. Johnson's rendition, in the Larry Grossman musical Paper Moon, is a KO as well; she coos, she beguiles, she does everything but bump it with a trumpet. It's the sort of turn to persuade even a show...
TIME WAS WHEN A LITTLE BOY WHO wanted to see a dirty word in print made a surreptitious trip to the dictionary and got his thrill. Now, with the publication of The F-Word (Random House paperback; 232 pages; $12.95), any curious boy or, for that matter, girl can get a bonanza of thrills and at the same time become the most foulmouthed and maybe most envied kid on the block...
...novelty. What makes it so interesting, if not thrilling, to grownups is the sheer volume of its usages, all of them duly authenticated with citations and examples. None of them--Darn it!--can be spelled out here (although some periodicals, notably the New Yorker, erstwhile doyenne of classy writing, print the word nowadays without a blush...
Still, it is useful for nonetymologists to learn that the F word may stem from the Germanic languages (for example, the Middle Dutch fokken, "to thrust, copulate with"); that the word found its way into print as early as the 1550s; and that it was James Joyce, Henry Miller and D.H. Lawrence who first thrust it, as it were, into modern literature...