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Deathwatch beetle
The New Yorker is on permanent deathwatch now. We wait for famous people to die.
-- Unnamed New Yorker writer, commenting on editor Tina Brown's policy of devoting quickie special issues to just-dead celebrities like Princess Diana. Quoted in the Nov. 3 New York Observer.
SALON | Nov. 4, 1997

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		`Q U O T E--O F--T H E--D A Y` Deathwatch beetle The New Yorker is on permanent deathwatch now. We wait for famous people to die. -- Unnamed New Yorker writer, commenting on editor Tina Brown's policy of devoting quickie special issues to just-dead celebrities like Princess Diana. Quoted in the Nov. 3 New York Observer. SALON \| Nov. 4, 1997