Word: tabloidism
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...power of this final tabloid is more to the credit of Lowell than the TCB. The violence itself is difficult to mis-stage, but it makes sense only if the production's narrow reading of the script is expanded. While racism is essential to Delano's behavior, the TCB fails to suggest that the Yankee would defend his (national) values against any threat--racial or not--not by reason or mercy, but by force. Benito Cereno is less a tragedy of malice or vengefulness--suggested by the Theater Company--than of American blindness...
...paper will be called Sunday/Friday, because it will be published each day beginning Sunday, Aug. 25, and ending Friday, Aug. 30. It will be a tabloid with a press...
...always looks good. Reagan headquarters would dearly love to show the famous hour-long Telestar debate with Robert Kennedy-in which Bobby showed up rather badly-but CBS, the producing network, has refused permission, claiming copyright privileges. In addition, 750,000 copies of an eight-page Reagan tabloid have been distributed with the state's Sunday newspapers. In all, about $300,000 is being spent in Oregon on Reagan's noncandidacy (v. $500,000 for Nixon...
Bugged Flowerpots. Mao has not, of course, given up his campaign to overthrow President Liu Shao-chi, the "pro-Moscow revisionist" who remains his most powerful foe. In the Kwangsi region last week, a Maoist tabloid accused one party loyalist of "bugging" flowerpots and sofas in Mao's headquarters "to procure information for China's Khrushchev"-Liu. In Peking, police forced the President's daughter to give public testimony against her father, then arrested her because her criticism was "insufficient...
Besides the New York crowd, a horde of columnists disappeared from the New York scene with the World Journal Tribune. Most of them return to the city this week, along with some new ones, in the New York Daily Column, a tabloid devoted entirely to columns and features. Running to 24 pages and costing 10?, it will carry such columnists as Joseph Alsop, Joseph Kraft, Ralph McGill, William S. White and Walter Winchell, as well as Cartoonists Paul Conrad and Bill Mauldin. Published by Jerry Finkelstein, a longtime dabbler in local Democratic politics who also puts out the New York...