Press: Bloody Tuesday and Wednesday

Bloody Tuesday and Wednesday And Thursday and Friday and . . .

Since French Publisher Daniel Filipacchi revived Look magazine in February, seven years after it folded, the glossy, large-format biweekly has been a nice place to visit, but not many journalists managed to live there. Fifteen editorial employees were fired or forced out, including Managing Editor John Durniak; Executive Editor Marianne Partridge resigned after five issues. For a time, new sackings seemed to come at the end of every week, a ritual that became known around the magazine's Manhattan offices as "Black Friday."

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