Word: nast
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DIED. ALEXANDER LIBERMAN, 87, artist and iconic Conde Nast editorial director who set the style and tone for Vogue and Vanity Fair--and inspired the industry to treat magazines as minor cultural jewels; in Miami. His Expressionist work appeared in the Whitney and Guggenheim museums...
...Times Square to be sealed off for several weeks. None of this had anything to do with creating a green building, but it gave Four Times Square (its official name) a bad rep and a cynic's nickname: "Times Square Titanic." Some newly ensconced employees of the Conde Nast magazine empire, the building's principal tenant, even contemplated extra life insurance. Then there were the break-in glitches, such as too-cold air conditioning, balky elevators and improperly installed locks...
Flynn listed Washington Irving, Charles Dickens, Clement C. Moore, author of "A Visit from Saint Nichols," or "`Taws the Night before Christmas," Francis Church and Thomas Nast as DWAMQs. Queen Victoria was also implicated, he said...
Whitney, who had planned to retire in the next few years, was stunned by Fuller's installation and distressed that she hadn't been asked for input in naming her successor. Fuller would not have been on her short list. "I told S.I. Newhouse [Conde Nast's owner] how disappointed I was in the choice," Whitney says. "I don't think Bonnie has the track record to uphold Glamour's journalistic standards, and I fear for what the magazine may lose. This is saying that only numbers matter and that women's magazines are just commodities...
Last week some media watchers speculated that Fuller's installation was provoked in part by Conde Nast CEO Steve Florio's machismo. Poaching the enemy can appear heroic. As an editor of a major women's magazine put it, "There's been so much bad press about him he had to change the dial." (Florio took a beating in a recent FORTUNE piece that accused him of atrocious management and of lying about the profitability of Conde Nast publications...