Word: serializations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These modern-day Sister Carries are the stars of a new genre of soap-opera fiction that has been leapfrogging from the pages of one metropolitan daily to another. Featuring young singles and written with a local background that often includes real people in cameo roles. the serials are pure whipped cream in a paper's usual menu of views and service features. "One of the reasons we started Probity," explains Des Moines Tribune Managing Editor Drake Mabry, "was to broaden the appeal of the paper to a part of the audience we're not reaching...
Unlike his near namesake of the old-time radio serial, Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons, the self-styled "Tracer of Missing Pets" is not infallible. He is hampered by police indifference, even when he can identify a petnaper. (On occasion, Keane says, he has come close to having his head blown off by professional criminals.) And, he notes "finding a lost bird in Oakland is like finding one particular flea on a Saint Bernard." Nonetheless, his ten-month-old business is prospering, and he has been approached to lend his nom de chien to a movie about Sherlock Bones...
Many a road to megabucks is paved with performance clauses, franchising agreements, copyrights, dramatic rights, first serial rights and other fine-print potholes. Thus prudent travelers have for years sought the guidance of an agent. Today the fast-talking cigar chomper of popular cliche has been replaced by a more sophisticated pathfinder, a Sherpa of the subclause who is a combination salesman, packager, legal scholar, investment counselor and spiritual adviser. The archetype is, of course, the legendary Irving ("Swifty") Lazar, still going strong at age 70, whose clients have ranged from Truman Capote to ex-President Richard Nixon...
Sails move continuously through Ted Hood's sail loft, from cutting and sewing rooms upstairs to finishing and storage rooms below. Similar patterns repeatedly form on the large wooden floors as workers unfold and spread out the sails to measure, cut and apply serial numbers to them. Designed in part by computers, the sails are made from special cloth manufactured by the Hood company in Marblehead and Fall River. This tightly woven cloth maintains sails' shapes without the customary use of resin which can disintegrate under stress and weathering...
...sound and add emotion or vividness to the dimension of a description. They are often onomatopoeic, but convey aspects that are not necessarily associated with sounds, especially in English--such as manner, color, taste, smell, silence, action, condition, texture, gait, posture or intensity. To students of theoretical syntax, the serial verb construction found primarily in certain West African languages is of great interest. There exist many other interesting aspects of the languages of Africa, that are most instructive and worthwhile to philologists and objective students of humanistic learning...