Yet Mr. Phillips's deficiencies enabled him to step out of the limelight and manage his crew of brilliant, cranky polemicists who felt comfortable discoursing on Trotsky in one issue and Tolstoy in the next.
Now it turns out that Dr. Segarra has some hole-in-one issues of his own.
Mothers used to have babes; now mothers are supposed to be babes, like those stars on celebrity magazine covers, superpregnant in one issue and back in sleek Versace the next.
She sent them — a packet of ten or so, including poems I'd seen and sent back to her, and we accepted several, publishing three in one issue.
Mr. Demsey said he came up with the idea to include all four of Lauder's fragrance faces in one issue of a magazine.
In one issue, Kamala argues with Sheikh Abdullah about the mosque's side entrance for women; in another, she ruins her brother's engagement party while trying to save the planet.
The second is just how much press Gilbert & George are doing to publicise their huge Tate retrospective: for instance, there were two features in one issue of Time Out the other week.
But as the weather warms and the prospect of regular blackouts grows, the debate over how to solve the crisis has become stale, mired in one issue: Gov. Gray Davis's pleas for the Bush administration to cap wholesale prices.
