Word: redbook
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chief among them Whitney--when the revered editor was ousted a week ago and replaced by her rival, Cosmo editor Bonnie Fuller, 41, who took over Hearst's sex-and-the-single-girl book from Helen Gurley Brown just 18 months ago. Fuller's successor at Cosmo will be Redbook editor Kate White...
Those who have regrets keep them to themselves. The rest of us regularly offer up our judgments every five years, when Harvard asks its graduates, male and female, to write about themselves for the class "Redbook," a "collective autobiography of triumphs and failures, bragging and tales of woe." As the preface to our just published 30th-reunion report warns, what we have to say can be "breathtakingly candid, insightful, boring, witty, curmudgeonly, heartbreaking." But it's always an intriguing peep into 1,493 personal diaries...
...atmosphere of his day he was probably right. He settled for what social scientists call a "sample of convenience," finding volunteers where he could. His numbers were huge -- some 11,000 people -- but selective and self-selected. In later years, mail-in surveys conducted by magazines like Playboy and Redbook and by Shere Hite were still less representative. Even Masters and Johnson called their own classic study "admittedly prejudiced...
...Johnson Redbook Service's Retail Indicators recorded a leap of 10.4% in department-, discount- and chain-store sales over last year. The source of the spree became clearer with the release of the New York-based Conference Board's consumer confidence index for December. It showed nearly a 13-point increase, following an 11-point hop the month before. Says Redbook analyst Steve Marotta: "Consumers went from the ostentatious '80s, making sure that they had somebody's name on their pocketbook, to the '90s, when they pulled in the reins. Now what we are seeing is the result of pent...
...even the dogmatic Redbook recognized thatthis sort of debate could only be healthy...