Attention or Pull Quotes, used to attract the attention of the reader
and spoil the story.
My Mentor Al Blaire, who ran the NY Times production department in the 1960's
did not like them so we never used them in our local newspapers during the 1980-90s
where as they were used often in my tenure at business journal in the late 90's.
nowadays, they are marquees on websites, if that is till the case today.
class dismissed!