The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, January 15, 1979, Page Page 8, Image 8
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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
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thusiastic writers w
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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
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5 that lose touch with
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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.
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writers
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ment staff will have its first
inuary 17, at 5:30 in RH
d at this meeting so that wr
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'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 '<
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I had most often on me.
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essay that and its final issue says
ery one, the country is dying, in no
and find a terms.
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d endless now for the tings that N
hem of the provided: the assura
e, quick hits, someone really cared abo
nuance and [~
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