Word: prospectus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...social issues were heavily debated during the 1980 campaign and were crucial in electing Ronald Reagan to the presidency. The 97th Congress, with its eager class of conservative freshmen, was expected to legislate traditional morality back into American life. But not one item of the New Right's prospectus has yet been made a law. Legislation that would allow organized prayer in public schools faced another filibuster. A bill authorizing tax credits for private school tuitions is mired in the Senate. And a measure that would restrict busing for school desegregation passed the Senate but is languishing...
...former West Coast editor for Penthouse, has filed suit for damages, half the royalties and title credit on all future editions of the book. As he tells it, he and Kassorla went from bed to tape recorder, chatting up sexual bouts and working out a detailed, 90-page prospectus for a "revolutionary new book on sexual behavior." He says that 114 of the 229 pages of the bestseller are his. He also claims joint credit for most of the book's original ideas, including "Silence Isn't Golden" (lovers should constantly talk during and after sex), "Fingertipping" (when...
Material that Margolis says was in the prospectus prepared jointly with Kassorla turns up almost word for word in the book. "There's no holding back. The spotlight is on her," swoons the prospectus. "The man becomes the orchestrator, playing her body as if it were a precious instrument." A similar passage is in Nice Girls Do: "There's no holding back. The spotlight is on you. Your partner becomes the musician, playing your body as if it were a precious instrument...
...cover of Rolling Stone's 1.8 million-copy Lennon memorial issue, which is expected to be RS's alltime bestseller. Publishers began turning out Lennon books almost overnight. The Wall Street Journal reported that one venture capitalist, Harry Harootunian of Cranston, R.I., even put out a prospectus offering 23 partnership interests at $45,000 apiece in a forthcoming book about Lennon...
...every February its original cover of a dandy, Eustace Tilley, eyeing a butterfly through a monocle-The New Yorker has changed a lot. There have been two New Yorkers. The original reflected its founding genius, Harold Ross. ("Its general tenor will be one of gaiety, wit and satire," the prospectus said. "It will hate bunk," and would not be "edited for the old lady in Dubuque.") Its clever, brittle style survived the Depression but seemed frivolously out of sync when World War II began. So, war coverage was introduced, culminating in an unsparing report on Hiroshima by John Hersey...