Word: tabloidization
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Natural Affection, by William Inge, has the impact of a tabloid shocker edited by Freud. As dramatic art the play fades out with the curtain's fall, but Kim Stanley's acting, Tony Richardson's direction, and John Lewis' hot-and-cool jazz score make it boil with sensual excitement...
...newsstands of Manhattan last week went 100,000 copies of a new literary review, tabloid-sized, priced at 25?, and running to 48 pages. The ambitious newcomer, calling itself the New York Review of Books, was prompted by the city's newspaper strike, but claims this was only incidental. Its goal: "To publish the sort of literary journal which the editors and contributors feel is needed in America...
Misleading & Disrespectful. In the two years that the Earl of Arran has been writing for the tabloid News, his plebeian readers have discovered in him that favorite British combination-lordly eccentricity. Few subjects are too large, and none too small, to embroil the Earl. He cannot fathom the Common Market, but he can try: "The lady from Bexhill still bangs away at me about a mass importation of French courtesans. But I think there must be more to the Common Mar ket than that." "Electrified" by reading in a Sunday women's page that a daub of lipstick artfully...
...than 80 dailies. But in two centuries, Tidende has become an unbreakable habit. On its circulation lists are descendants of subscribers originally signed up by Ernst Berling. In Copenhagen, a city of 1,250,000, the seven papers that compete with Tidende's three -which include B.T., a tabloid, and the evening Berlingske Aftenavis-together muster a circulation barely matching the Tidende group...
Competitor dailies may quail at a trend toward consolidation that has reduced the ranks of Danish dailies by 50 in the last 15 years. Tidende remains calm. After all, its only true competitor is in the family: the tabloid B.T., which has crept within 2,000 of its parent's 166,000 morning circulation. Besides, Tidende is not just a newspaper. It is a mirror into which the Dane looks each day to see himself. "Tidende is an absolutely decent paper," says Dr. Vincent Naeser, principal stockholder and great-great-grandson of Ernst Berling. "It reflects the Danish mind...