Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain's military service chiefs were waiting, with smiles and handshakes, on a red carpet in London's grimy Victoria Station. Artillery in Hyde Park thundered in salute. The scarlet-coated band of the Scots Guards even broke into Deutschland über Alles. Headlined London's tabloid Daily Sketch: O.K., FRITZ, YOU'RE OUT OF THE DOGHOUSE...
...Tips from Santa Claus. While London's more mannered newspapers either ignored Heuss editorially or muffled their welcome, Cassandra, the acid-veined columnist of the tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 4.6 million), let fly: "Heuss has been marketed over here as a gentle, learned Santa Claus utterly removed from the Krupps, the Thyssens, the Schachts, and all the other industrialists and scientists without whose enthusiastic cooperation World War II would never have been possible . . . The President is, in fact, a skillful apologist for the German people." Cassandra was unmoved by Heuss's contribution...
...suggests that "we've been taught a helluva lot of Don'ts and almost no Do's." causes of apathy are much deeper and more complex than Frede's closing explanation suggests. In sum, the author fails to convince the reader that he is capable of more than a tabloid presentation of character or idea...
...entertained her last guest. When police broke into her apartment they found her strangled with her own stockings. The police moved gingerly in the case, gently questioned a number of big industrialists, finally arrested an unemployed salesman named Pohlmann, who insisted loudly that he was not the murderer. Most tabloid-reading Germans believe...
...Lost Summer is simply a muted, chillingly written version of a tabloid story. Author Davis gets down to his novelist's business as Toni finds that her familiar world is steadily rotting away because of the unease felt by the people around her. An old neighbor lady whom she has known from childhood cuts her on the street. At her summer school her instructor barely disguises his leer. Her younger sister pruriently prods her with questions. And Stan Walters shifts rapidly from guilt and remorse to jealousy and suspicion, accuses her of having invited the attack. Gradually, Toni moves...