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...midterm time, and you say you don't have time to read the sports page because you've got a Gov 20 exam at noon. Just for a minute, though, forget about those last 200 unread pages of "The Civic Culture"--it won't be on the test anyway--and read this column. It's a test too, and it may help get you into the mood...
...most famous flameouts (D.W. Griffith, Buster Keaton, Erich von Stroheim) and the best-documented veterans (Gloria Swanson, King Vidor, Lillian Gish). Even the trivia somehow does not seem trivial. It is touching to hear Frank Capra recall Mack Sennett's sad mansion full of unread books and overdressed servants. Director Henry Hathaway, who remained active past True Grit (1969), wittily brings back the days when his job was to follow DeMille around with a chair on location. A writer remembers the shock of seeing her credits on a silent version of Macbeth: "By William Shakespeare. Titles by Anita Loos...
...lost $14.6 million and 50,000 readers as the result of a bitter eight-month pressmen's strike that ended in February. So the owner, F.P. Publications (the Toronto Globe and Mail and six other Canadian dailies), decided that with the balance sheet red and the broadsheet unread, the Star was better off dead...
...Adidas and proceeds to peel off her shoes, socks and sweaters, revealing her unhealthy, banana-colored skin. Having bravely ventured this far, she risks a glance at the other guilty ones. To her astonishment, Harvard beach is littered with uninhabited tennis shoes, crewneck sweaters and T-shirts--even with unread textbooks and blank paper passively but menacingly there. It appears people will do anything to feel the warm caress of the sun on their creepy, winter-whitened, fish-belly flesh. On her right, a young man who had been complaining about his work, hoping to impress the girl next...
Your threnody for the financially wrecked freelance-writer industry is accurate. However, I believe you missed the most important problem of the impoverished freelance writer. Rather than the low pay, it is the unprofessional attitude of editors. Queries remain unread for weeks and months. Agreements are reneged on. And there is a growing insistence that writers spend time and money producing an article on speculation, without the flimsiest of guarantees...