Word: racks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this city's newest weekly, the Cambridge Express. Published by a New Hampshire concern also responsible for a putrid arts and lifestyle rag in Keene, the Express clearly is an attempt to capitalize on the death of the Real paper (indeed, you can find the Express on the rack marked "Real Paper" in many local drugstores). Perhaps it is unfair to judge a magazine after only three issues. Notice, though, that the Express puts its calendar listings in the front, seven pages of how to eat, drink and be amused, before even a single article. But at least the listings...
MacNicol is a comic minefield. His meticulous legalisms are at total variance with his discombobulated manner. He wears his clothes as if they were still on the rack...
This book does wile away an hour or two in a useless, harmless sort of way. It's doubtful that it will convert anyone, but it could make a nice hard-bound supplement to that magazine rack in the bathroom...
...While we rack our brains and flip back through the pages for the secret to Langtry's devotion to the patients of Ward X, we are left wondering how and why this Puritan work ethnic ever snuck onto McCullough's outline...
...whites white in this world of sin and expiation where the characters care deeply about the conventions they transgress. Today's world, in contrast, appears in crisp, colorless light, everything modern and vaguely jet-setty. Porsches cruise the cobbled streets and the casual clothes come from Christian Dior's rack. Lines are tossed off. It's a real world where nothing seems real...