Word: wurtzel
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Elizabeth Wurtzel ’89, author of the drug-addiction memoir “More, Now, Again,” speaks of Ritalin, her one-time drug of choice, with a loathing that could only come from experience...
...prods her readers to think about what it means to grow up too fast and what it feels like to be a cliché, it becomes clear that she’s following proudly in the tradition of Ivy League literary wunderkinds like Nick McDonell, Natalie Krinsky, and Liz Wurtzel ’89. Just like them, Viswanathan is compulsively concerned with authenticity and the anxiety of alienation...
...demonstrated, it takes only a few hits like Desperate Housewives to orchestrate a rebound. But network execs are already dreaming up ways to resell content on platforms like video on demand, cell phones and the Internet. "You gotta figure out a way to make money," says Alan Wurtzel, president of media development for NBC Universal. "We know the consumer is changing and expectations are changing." Question is, will the networks change fast enough too? -With reporting by Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles
THEORY NO. 3 Bad sampling. The networks contend the drop is so dramatic that there must be problems with Nielsen's methodology. NBC research guru Alan Wurtzel has proposed a controversial explanation: the addition of more young Hispanic men to the sample this year (to reflect the population better) had the unintended effect of skewing the results, since Hispanic men, he claims, are less likely to push the buttons on their Nielsen meters. Nielsen stands by its numbers but is reviewing its methodology and expects to issue a report as early as this week. By that time, maybe...
Elizabeth L. Wurtzel ’89, the author, most recently, of More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction. Her previous books include Prozac Nation and Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women. I shall give this further thought, as the list is long. (Having only recently learned the difference between “further” and “farther,” it was exciting to make use of the former.) Below are a few things that are sort of metaphysical, although I think what you want are facts. But here goes: Why we need peppermint and spearmint...