Word: randomed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Random House action has shaken an already depressed and jittery industry...
Poor Little Rich Girl seemingly had everything going for it: a notorious beauty who died an impoverished recluse in 1979, a supporting cast of lovers that included Howard Hughes and James Dean, and a seasoned biographer, working from interviews with the heiress as well as her unpublished diaries. Random House was delighted but not surprised by the enthusiastic "money quotes" in early reviews. After all, the work had been chosen as a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate, Vanity Fair had excerpted a chapter, and the film rights had been sold...
Then last month, in an unprecedented action, Random House abruptly recalled all 58,000 copies of the biography. What destined the volumes for the shredder was a threatened libel suit by Dr. Edward A. Kantor. Biographer C. David Heymann had portrayed the Beverly Hills physician as Hutton's "prematurely gray-haired" Dr. Feelgood, a trusted medical adviser since 1943. In fact, Kantor turned 14 that year, and he did not treat the alcohol-and pill-addicted heiress until...
...policies toward the Soviet Union. Although most of them approve of the President's assertive use of U.S. power, 60% say they worry a lot about "the possibility of nuclear war." To expand on the poll, TIME correspondents and stringers in 28 U.S. cities questioned a random sampling of people-not experts, just ordinary people-to see what lay behind their views and how those views had changed during the past year...
...DISCOVERERS by Daniel J. Boorstin; Random House...