Word: throwaway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expansion testifies to the success of the oldest and most unusual throwaway publication in the U.S. Most throwaways are just what the name implies, but surveys have shown that 89% of Broadway theatergoers take their Playbills home -and some 5,000 of them, including two customers in India and one in New Zealand, buy leather binders ($2.50 to $5) with which to preserve their copies. Most throwaways are hurled at the largest possible readership. Playbill has been interested only in Broadway theatergoers, of which there...
Last week all that changed in a donybrook fought, in the words of Poet Louis MacNeice, with "the soft-spoken malice, the ostentatiously throwaway display of inside information, the heavy-lidded, thin-lipped irony, the addiction to verbal arabesques, the exquisite verdigris of cynicism, that have traditionally characterized this city of sneering spires...