Word: sectioning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Follows:" publishes primary source material. (Documents printed in this section are real--Fifteen Minutes does NOT author the copy.) Where necessary, FM makes minor editorial changes...
...Another car slows down near our section of the line. It's a late-model black, Nissan Pathfinder. A window rolls down and a middle-aged woman with a perm, heavy eye-liner, and a flashy adornment of jewelry scans the crowd...
...this time our position in line has greatly improved. We can see where MTV has set up rope corrals and a stage where, later in the day, there will be live entertainment. A woman in "Wannabee a VJ" garb raises a megaphone and addresses our section of the queue...
...Referencing Warhol, I think, was intended to be cool and cultured, like FM. Back then, the magazine housed the "op-Arts" section of theatre, music, film and book reviews; this material took up half of the magazine. Given the content, a nod to Warhol, the artist, made sense...
...Identity crisis only worsened two years ago when the op-Arts were removed from FM to form the separate "Arts" section. "What now?" thought the magazine editors. And thus Fifteen Minutes, sans arts section, tumbled into confusion. Who are we, where are we going? Various theories surfaced. Some editors thought that "Fifteen Minutes" should be about popular culture with kitschy visuals and copy. Others took the Warhol reference more literally and sprinkled the magazine with Campbell's soup cans. Recent magazine executives interpreted the title at face value--a quarter hour--and brought a chronological theme to the magazine...