Word: space
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stalwarts among the Carlson groups accounted for almost half of last year's billion-dollar-plus sales. One of them, the catalogue showroom retailing operations, which grossed $216 million, embraces brand-name discount chains that require little in the way of display space, sales help and security personnel because customers order merchandise from catalogues. Thus the companies can undercut many of the big low-price chains like K mart. The other, the Carlson Premium Group, which last year got one-third of its $250 million revenues from Gold Bond Stamps, organizes incentive programs for companies that reward high-achieving...
...stiff-wristed, tend to wiggle and bounce more than Mediterranean peoples. There is also a difference between Old and New Worlds in arm swinging: Americans do it as if they owned the world; Frenchmen walk with their upper arms close to the body, as if moving through very limited space...
...other writers. Take, for instance, the impact of television in reshaping American politics. Theodore H. White '38 in The Making of the President 1960 broke the story of the Kennedys' deliberate use of television and polls to pole-vault the regular party structure as well as time and space restrictions on national candidates. Joe McGinnis's The Selling of the President 1968, a case study of media merchandising, provided a much more chilling and prophetic account of Richard Nixon's packaging than all of Halberstam's hindsighted anecdotes put together. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s yin/yang books--1000 Days...
...that $300,000 advance somehow) leads him into some egregious mistakes in reporting and analysis. It's crucial to Halberstam's argument, for instance, that when the Los Angeles Times finally gave Nixon "fair" coverage in the 1962 California governor's race, asked tough questions, allowed his opponent equal space. Nixon would break down and reveal his paranoia. So Halberstam completely distorts the famous "you won't have Nixon to kick around any more" press conference after Nixon lost that race. Quoting only one Nixon sentence, Halberstam claims that Nixon completely lost control and launched into a screed against...
Every time the narrative picks up steam, though, Halberstam blows the pipes with hyperbolic cliche. In the space of four pages about Henry Luce, for example, Halberstam calls him "large on the landscape," "brilliant," "incredible," "legendary," "shrewd," "muscular," "powerfully influential," and describes both Luce and Life magazine as "dazzling" within six lines of each other. Almost every one of Halberstam's media moguls are "geniuses," one way or another. Almost every reporter in the book is described as "brilliant" and "fiercely independent." Halberstam's villains, like CBS programmer James Aubrey, fairly drip bile off the page...