Word: tabloidism
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...from an average 30 minutes to only five or ten. No one was required to get out of autos or to submit to a search. As a test of the new East German attitude, one driver openly displayed copies of a West German military magazine and a Hamburg sex tabloid on the front seat of his car. In the past, Western publications were confiscated lest they contaminate East German minds. This time, however, an East German guard simply shrugged...
...Newsday and the Washington Post have moved toward full feature sections covering the arts, the media, lifestyles, personalities of both sexes-all under one umbrella. These papers run paragons of what women's sections can become. Newsday's "Part II," with an assist from its tabloid format, reads much like a newsmagazine. Stories dealing with medicine, behavior, entertainment are separated into subsections. Not one is devoted exclusively to women, and the omission is not an oversight. Explains Newsday Executive Editor David Laventhol: "I feel that women's pages should be a thing of the past. They were...
Language, like the world it represents, can never be static. Even today the pun survives fitfully in tabloid headlines: JUDGES WEIGH FAN DANCER'S ACT, FIND IT WANTON. It survives in the humor of S.J. Perelman, the only post-Joycean writer capable of fluent bilingual flippancy: "lox vobiscum," "the Saucier's Apprentice," and the neo-Joycean "Anna Trivia Pluralized." The pun makes its happiest regular appearance in the work of Novelist Peter De Vries, who writes stories about compulsive punners. "I can't stop," he claims. "I even dream verbal puns. Like the one in which...
...screamed a National Enquirer front-page headline in 1962. I CUT OUT HER HEART AND STOMPED ON IT W35 another terrifying teaser in the weekly tabloid's gory old days. The paper's new day is something else. In a total turnabout, the Enquirer has banished cannibalism, sadism and sick sex in favor of a blend of upbeat success stories, gossip by and about celebrities, plus an overdose of the occult and the quasiscientific. The switch to a kind of respectability has had spectacular results. Circulation, stalled at about 1,000,000 at the height of the Enquirer...
...picture was not always that pleasant for Gene Pope. Born in The Bronx, he edited his father's Italian-language // Progresso before buying the debt-ridden New York Enquirer in 1952 with $75,000 in borrowed money. Pope transformed it from a horse-racing sheet into a gruesome tabloid in order to turn a profit. "I noticed how auto accidents drew crowds," he recalls, "and I decided that if it was blood that interested people, I'd give it to them." In the mid-1960s, however, circulation leveled off, and the number of newsstands and corner candy stores...