Word: tabloidization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...letter in response to a Dartboard piece ("A Beef With Bamboo Shoots," Feb. 19, 1995) about the art exhibit co-sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association (AAA) displayed in the Science Center. We hadn't realized The Crimson had the luxury of replacing editorial space with tabloid gossip. We guess you couldn't even call it that--though the cattiness is there, most columns do a bit more research into their subject to avoid looking foolish after publication...
...cancer-stricken woman with only one lung--and even stronger headlines: Seduced by a Prince and Killed by a Prince. Though the manufacturer of Prince cigarettes is not taking legal action, offended Danes are fighting back. ``Since thousands of people are killed in traffic every year,'' the Copenhagen tabloid Ekstra Bladet editorialized, ``why not print posters with Raped by Volvo or Abused by Saab...
...those merely watching on the sidelines, the adversarial nature of courtroom proceedings does tempt an observer to keep score. Advantage prosecution, the pundits declared following Day One. TOUCHDOWN, JOHNNIE! blared the tabloid New York Post after Cochran took the floor. ``After the prosecution finished, it seemed so clear that O.J. was guilty,'' says U.S.C.'s Chemerinsky. ``Then after the defense finished, you felt he was not guilty. What more could you ask for?'' The jury, however, has yet to see the full presentation of evidence--and evidence, in theory, is what will take...
Streisand, who wanted her tour of the University to be "as private as possible," fended off news and tabloid photographers throughout...
...course, this gives a somewhat splintered view of our fair university. Yup. There's a reason that the cover of last year's Commencement tabloid in The Crimson had a shattered Harvard seal on the cover...