Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Business as Usual. He would obviously do nothing drastic. The Star's quiet grey makeup, so strange to outsiders, so reassuring to its readers, would be kept, like a cluttered desk whose owner says: "I know it looks like a mess but I know just where everything is." Readers would still find the big stories of the day in columns 1, 3, 6 and 8 of Page One, under unassuming heads (only twice before 1929* and about 20 times since has any 8-column headline appeared in the Star), and the day's best feature story halfway down...
Another geyser, hotter than ever, boiled up from the underwater world of ballpoint pens. As usual, it was started by Milton Reynolds, the Old Faithful of ball-pointism (TIME...
...several would still have their say. The big national press, moved by generosity and a chance to grab some good features, promptly offered them space. Editor Kingsley Martin's New Statesman would talk to more people than its usual 75,000 in the News Chronicle, the Evening Standard, the Sunday Pictorial and the Sunday Observer (combined circ.: five million), each of which promised to carry one or another Statesman feature. But the offers were not enough to still...
Finally, the film industry must itself raise the standard of film advertising. In most cases, cinema publicity is far more offensive than any film would dare to be. No sooner do Hollywood publicity departments concoct an advance campaign built about the usual theme, sex, than the self-chosen censors catch the scent, and like a pack of bewildered blood-hounds, bay along the trail straight into the press agent's trap. Some taste must be applied to film advertising if the scope of film censorship is not to grow. The motion picture industry must play a responsible role and clean...
There has been a "cessation of hostilities," he said, "but we have no genuine peace ... Now that an immediate peril is not plainly visible, there is a national tendency to relax, and to return to business as usual, politics as psual, pleasure as usual...