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4Nei By Lehman Stiles Asst. Ent*rf?inm*flt Editor Something very distu happened January 8 ? New magazine folded. After a s five-year existence, the maj bowed to the pressure skyrocketing costs and, significantly, decreasing culation In a final mari-i diatribe against the forces killed it, the magazine's last was devoted entirely to the s of decadence. New Times had always b special part of the media nei holding its own distinctive pi the magazine world. Dissa with the increasing cel< emphasis and fast-food mei of the big weeklies, Tinn Newsweek, the editors of Times attempted and us suceeded in creating a informative, and enterta albeit distrubing, picture < culture. That is why the imp the last issue is so devastati New Times savs the cult.ii decadent, I have no choice believe them. They've been so often before. From the beginning, New developed its own distinctive I M The Gamecock entertain I Wednesday afternoon, Ja | formation must be obtaine I be paid for their articles. [ ] Anyone interested in wri [-I the paper is invited to atten II is helpful, but not necessa WF/ffl* Y ',; 13 i ' i I ' ^: ( g :- >' * "i^V 'i *' I . ^ II T J a ] J9 ^ w Tin of reporting. Usir thusiastic writers w irbing enough not to writ Times People wanted l tormy magazine uncoveri gazine story that no one e is of care about. Increa: more ^is category as r cir- Rolling Stone is-hell Business, New Tin 5 that lose touch with [ issup public, exploring i ubject public did not want ? the Elvis chan >een a deteriorating envirt twork traitorous games ol ace in TIie articles w< tisfied professionlal and < sbrity voking outrage ? s< itality read. b and 1* was only nat' Nevv Times' finale woul sually indictment of the de fresh *n' ^e '70s. From ining| Laurent $250,000 y )f our introduce a perfum< act of to children portr; ing: if objects in movies, tl rp ic a frighteningly soli but to downfall of society, right' *s a 8em? a capti> ! piece of furious s Times which leaves one w ? ctvlp that nothing will eve same again. entertainrr writers mee ment staff will have its first inuary 17, at 5:30 in RH d at this meeting so that wr ting for the entertainment s d the meeting. Experience ii irv ? J ies' go< ig young, en- In an introductory 'ho didn't know should be read by ev F> PYflrflv what pdifnrs dissppt thi> 7ftc to read, the rampant cancer. "Dis ed story after red-raw beat an lse bothered to climaxes, is the ant singly alone in seventies. High voltag< nagazines like that's what we want, became Big texture can wait .. Ar ies seemed to can't get it up for all th< the American > Rubell ever dreamed areas that the fevers of a thousan to know about I nichLsanH all thp ma?! ides, the still- in Wichita still aren't ei rnment and the remains surrender bo ? Patty Hearst, to an Emporer Jones. L ere incisive, said, choose your pois capable of in- The letters to the e 3 they were not final issue give some effect of New Tim jral that New culture. While taking d be a raging "sloppy thinking an< cade it grew up "anti-intellectual pie< an Yves Saint bage," "sickening," acht party to and "sleazy," some ( e called Opium ments of readers upon ayed as sex- that the maeazinp was he issue makes a different story: "goo d case for the sense of humor, a The issue itself magazine" ... "a frien /ating master- dependable" ... "a sad, >elf-destruction ' depressed to the poir, 'ith the feeling The most telling ir r look quite the New Times' effect was writing about an articl care in the U.S.' "I '< f | from the article treml 0 n | B was the influence that I had most often on me. j mere collection of ] H events. It was an hones [j see beneath the suj ,. I surface of the seventic / TI PI Q I finger on the pulse of 321. In- I iters can I ... ection I i writing | aBt g jgl hh " bbbh it jhnbb ij|hrovpvn| WnDH ITTTTTTT3 es out fi essay that and its final issue says ery one, the country is dying, in no and find a terms. *co, with its I don't quite know whe d endless now for the tings that N hem of the provided: the assura e, quick hits, someone really cared abo nuance and [~ id when you 0 e stars Steve I g ^ Jp of, when the | g % ( d Saturday ? sage parlors CJ A riough, there JlCl il fj dy and soul iike the man A jl b uet invo ditor in the : ,1? ?r it lUCtt U1 UIC I . , I /" n les on the JOIfl th0 OH i shw" BLRCK Year :e of gar- . i "ignorant" QflO feCOfO >f the com- . finding out O0iflQ Q DO ; folding tell ' d writing, a Wa aAaH* 1 nd a gutsy I T d, constant, | /Mir^lis* sadday"... rwwn% ldicatToanrsof & intereste by a reader DCHT e on mental vJr<Lril E XP E R New Times L"/Xl ""IX X" Come to We iTSJ (1/17/79) m JS. It had its O Pillinfn; I I M uu. uuunu^, j f ;w aSMIHgHBBBHMJilMfc# 5 ggs a' jMMUMgHMfl^^^njI^H^HHfl vi; flS%?? m*? ,r' ;. ^ :;. HH ghtir that the happening to uncertain with the assert that, indeed, n< re to turn bleaker now ew Times magazine coul nee that effect on life ut what is telling tribute. Just TkA/Al RH^ I ^ Ived! IRNET & book staff 1979 while <ft of it. i writers, / ions people! jt i. V o people. \ IENCE ?d .'s eeting ^ Rm. 316 Russ p pSPBJEPaC ig this country. And ion of the last issue ) one does, life looks That a mere id have this much is lis unai, most It will be missed. ell House jb i ij pHB IkHSAUSaSUB^^H i^.?g|;r;-^-' _rj_^:_-' H n Jj 3 H & A 3# A A^^^E^^sSp* CEZEEBj