Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most famous example of the trend Ephron laments is not even an American one. THE HEIR IS BECOMING APPARENT, punned a tabloid headline about Prince Charles' wife Diana. Other headlines read: NAPPY HOLIDAY and BACK WITH A BUMP. The blooming princess attended a dinner two weeks ago after a respite from public appearances. Her condition, pending delivery, has resulted in hundreds of gifts?from Teddy bears to a minithrone...
...DAILY NEWS--the gritty, inky, legendary tabloid of New York City--is dying...
...Dunsmuir, Calif., Douglas has been thrice married and enjoyed a highly successful career as a publishing executive (WomenSports) before starting her own magazine sales and marketing firm in Los Angeles. In 1976 boredom tempted her to put a personal ad ("dynamic career woman, tall, blonde . . .") in a cheap tabloid for singles. "My personal life was on hold," she says...
This is due largely to what is known in the author's literary circle as resonance-the rich tone that even a tabloid subject causes when drawn across a perceptive and deeply cultured intelligence. Where newspaper readers saw the case as little more than an upper-middle-class rendition of Frankie and Johnny (he done her wrong. Bang! Bang!), Trilling sees a drama worthy of the talents of Flaubert, Leo Tolstoy and F. Scott Fitzgerald. She also teases out enough class conflict to spin a dark web of one of egalitarian America's most sensitive subjects...
...usually spoken of, and written about, in the glutinous jargon of educators, guaranteed to obfuscate the issues and glaze the eye. This month, however, public discourse about education got a little affirmative action in the form of a new weekly newspaper called Education Week. The 24-page tabloid is published in Washington, D.C., by Editorial Projects in Education Inc., a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization that founded and later sold the sprightly, respected Chronicle of Higher Education. At a yearly subscription rate of $39.94 (charter subscribers pay $19.97), Education Week claims to report the ABC's of primary and secondary...