Word: summed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House do a damn good job and print almost zero that is not confirmed by at least someone who ought to know. But because they are covering the president, their editors want something every day. After all, he is the president, and they are paying a huge sum to send their reporters out with...
...Time-Warner merger of 1989 was supposed to produce corporate "synergy": the whole was supposed to be more than the sum of the parts. The Cop Killer controversy is an example of negative synergy. People get mad at Cop Killer and start boycotting the movie Batman Returns. A reviewer praises Cop Killer ("Tracy Marrow's poetry takes a switchblade and deftly slices life's jugular," etc.), and TIME is accused of corruption instead of mere foolishness. Senior Time Warner executives find themselves under attack for -- and defending -- products of their company they neither honestly care for nor really understand...
...museum. One fragment of a 14th century mosaic dado from the Alhambra, however beautiful, is only a detail and cannot convey the overwhelming effect of the patterning on the palace's actual walls. Thus, although this exhibition looks fine inside the pyramid of the Met's Lehman Pavilion, its sum effect does not begin to equal the setting in which the Spanish public saw it earlier this year -- the Alhambra itself...
...dogs and a cat to feed. Strapped for cash, the family has had to accept meals and clothing from the Salvation Army. Nina Zharikov is the only wage earner, bringing home 2,000 rubles a month as a subway cleaner. The family also gets an equal sum in government child support. But "every kopeck goes for food, and there's never enough," says the 37-year-old mother. "Even though I earned less before, we could still afford to live." The Ministry of Social Protection estimates that a family of four needs at least 3,000 rubles a person each...
...year-old icon who had ruled the legendary magazine for 35 years, to bring in his own editor, Robert Gottlieb, former president of Knopf publishers (another Newhouse enterprise). But the evolution he demanded of Gottlieb did not happen. The magazine lost at least $10 million last year, a significant sum even to Newhouse. Circulation, which had been boosted to 632,000 at considerable cost, is slipping. Advertising tumbled 18.5% in 1991, although it is improving slightly now. More fundamentally, the New Yorker has not shaken off its aura of an elegant but musty institution, disdainful of topicality, given to sometimes...