Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Green Curtain. Armchair psephologists might have expected more of the network anchors, who crammed for the event as if it were a bar exam. Walter Cronkite, who for four years had been squirreling away newspaper clippings and other relevant nuggets of information, went into semi-seclusion weeks ago. Every day he would pull a loden green curtain across the glass windows of his CBS Evening News office and retype his dog-eared files onto pages of a loose-leaf notebook. "I don't learn just by reading, so I rewrite everything and get it into my head," he reports...
...Medicine (David Baltimore). Another received one of the fatter pay raises in history (TV Anchor Woman Barbara Walters). One rose from U.S. Ambassador to NATO to Secretary of Defense (Donald Rumsfeld). Two were in the running for the G.O.P. vice-presidential nomination until the final cut (Governors Christopher Bond of Missouri and Robert Ray of Iowa); another (Federal Trade Commissioner Elizabeth Hanford) last December married the man who finally got the nod, Robert Dole...
...Dulcibella, hitherto contemptuously inert, began to wake and tremble under the buffetings she received ... Soon her warp tightened and her nose swung slowly round; only her stern bumped now, and that with decreasing force. Suddenly she was free and drifting broadside to the wind till the anchor checked her and she brought up to leeward of it, rocking easily and triumphantly." Riddle's most famous nautical scene involves a desperate 13-mile trip in a dinghy through solid fog and tricky waters, with Carruthers rowing like a metronome on command and Davies guiding the boat with a stop watch...
...taxi to work. That day there was something else new in her routine. Four months and uncounted fan-magazine headlines after she left Today, Walters faced the television public for the first time in her new $1 million-a-year job on the ABC Evening News. Reported the rookie anchor woman afterward: "About two seconds before we went on the air, I thought, 'Please, God ... ' but that was all the time I had to think about...
Each chapter starts at the moment of "his," the general's, death, and spirals back in time. Every episode, like a link in a chain, takes hold of the previous one, circles out on its own, and returns to intersect its point of origin, having established a new anchor in space onto which the next can attach itself. The careful structure of Marquez' surrealistic time has the same natural quality and arresting impact of those first ten words...