Word: tabloidal
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...stopped running since. Thanks to Rockefeller largesse, the G.O.P. in Arkansas throbs with enthusiasm. It has a formal organization in every one of the state's 75 counties, boasts 40 women's clubs with a total membership of 1,076, and even publishes a sporadic tabloid, the Arkansas Outlook. Bragged one G.O.P. organizer: "We don't talk Republicanism-we preach...
FRANK SINATRA: SEPTEMBER OF MY YEARS (Reprise) is music to brood by as Frankie at 50 reflects on yesterday's loves and warms himself on old memories (Hello, Young Lovers; September Song; Last Night When We Were Young). Tabloid readers do not have to believe a word of it, but he does sound romantically resigned...
Thus, stuck away in the country hollows, in old villages around which suburbs have grown, in city slums that look like grey blurs from expressways and fast commuter trains, the poor are scarcely visible. Society sees them mostly through the tabloid stories that reflect their roaring crime rate. For, as Henry Fielding put it 200 years ago, "the sufferings of the poor are less known than their misdeeds...
...Chicago Sun-Times, which Field had taken over from his father in 1950, was not only making a profit after long years in the red, it was also closing in on the front-running Chicago Tribune. A serious and responsible tabloid, the Sun-Times was even outselling the Trib within the city limits of Chicago. Field's second paper, the Chicago Daily News, which he bought for $24 million from the Knight Newspapers in 1959, was not making as much money as the Sun-Times, but it was gaining in reputation. "I think newspapers should speak to the orchestra...
...told "exclusive," Patria announced that "Hitler and his Nazi assassins were disciples of the Yankees. The Yankees have shown themselves to be better teachers of crime than Trujillo." La Nación, the official four-page tabloid voice of the rebel government, can be almost as shrill. It attacks junta troops as "genocidas" and "torturers...