Word: serializations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President. By late afternoon, however, the President was ahead, 9 to 7. Even so. the New York Daily News next morning bannered its report of Hughes' flight, with smaller front-page type for Nixon's mission. In a contest between history and fascinating trivia, the serial saga of an aging eccentric (see story, page 18) still has an extraordinary hold on the popular imagination...
...tale came wrapped extravagantly-boxes within boxes, each festooned with its own diminished fantasies, each gaudily papered in ever thinner tissues of lies. The serial revelations in the Howard Hughes-Clifford Irving affair became an extraordinary popular entertainment, a top of the TV news, a front-page divertissement that evoked the distractions of an earlier, less desperate age. Like the Americans who once crowded the docks waiting for the latest chapter of Dickens to arrive by boat, devotees anticipated the next surprises...
...reading your article on Winthrop Sargeant, I was once again reminded of critics' serious misunderstanding of twelve-tone and serial music. The twelve-tone system does not merely express violence but rather expresses the value of abstraction. If we feel violent when listening to a work by Schoenberg, we are assigning meanings to that work that are not really there...
...contracts were signed-one between McGraw-Hill and Irving, the other between Irving and Hughes. Hughes insisted that the entire project be kept strictly secret.* Last spring McGraw-Hill approached LIFE Managing Editor Ralph Graves, who signed a contract for an option on the first magazine and newspaper serial rights...
Oscar and his partners started "retailing" about a year ago. The autos they sell have serial numbers that have been altered by skillful craftsmen. Oscar has friends closely connected with certain motor vehicle departments who for a fee will issue bona fide registration forms, plates and marker tags...