Word: tabloidization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What goes for one of their newspaper businesses must go for all. So when Knight-Ridder told workers striking at its Philadelphia Daily News that it might shut down the tabloid, it had credibility. Nine out of 10 of that paper's striking unions reached tentative agreements with their corporate parent last week to reconcile huge downsizing. When corporations wield such cold power that they can unite with each other to face down their workers, you know that a capitalist conspiracy is in our midst...
...live mouse with a human ear growing out of its back? Surely it's a freak or a fake, something out of a carnival sideshow or supermarket tabloid? No, the startling creature that showed up in newspapers and on television last week is quite real and actually serves a scientific purpose. It is the latest and most dramatic demonstration of progress in tissue engineering, a new line of research aimed at replacing body parts lost to disease, accident or, as is often the case with a missing ear, a schoolyard fight...
More perilous still, we see Allen re-writing his tabloid sins at an age (he'll be 60 this year) when he looks like a pensive Rumpelstiltskin; boyish roguery ill suits him. In TV revivals of Broadway farces, he plays crabby geezers: the tourist with tsuris in Don't Drink the Water, a decrepit comic in a new version of The Sunshine Boys. Yet in his films Allen is the Woody of old--or, rather, of young. To Lenny, the raw, vibrant Linda makes Amanda seem stale and shrewish. Bonham Carter (who's a radiant 29 and certainly doesn...
...others; to be a goodwill ambassador to Haiti and have a world problem get attention because she brings it up; and, best of all, to be hounded worldwide by photographers. Last week the news broke that Roberts had found love with a Venetian water-limo driver--an Italian tabloid even ran a blurry photo, possibly of the two kissing. "It's not true," says Roberts' spokesperson. "I didn't ask her if she kissed him, but she kisses everyone. She's very affectionate...
...TIME team, coordinated by correspondent Jeanne McDowell, set up shop at the Inter-Continental Hotel, just above the rooms that had served for nine months as the secret home of the Simpson jurors. Competition among the press, fierce all along, reached a peak as TV and tabloid reporters offered tens of thousands of dollars for exclusives. TIME, like most serious news publications, does not pay for interviews. Our reporters had to pursue the story, as deputy chief of correspondents Jan Simpson puts it, "the old-fashioned way: by getting to the right sources...