Word: besting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MARY MCCARTHY AND LILLIAN HELLMAN Best Punch: McCarthy on Hellman--"Every word she writes is a lie, including...
ORSON WELLES AND WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST Best Punch: Citizen Kane
...President Bill Clinton's accomplishments has been to restore the strength of Franklin Roosevelt's legacy by reforming welfare and conquering runaway deficits while still showing how government could help average citizens. He's written a fascinating piece about what Roosevelt means today. Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of a best-selling book on Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, is a great historian and a wonderful writer. Her biographical essay on Roosevelt captures, in a moving way, his personality and historic significance...
...process, we felt even more strongly that Einstein best met our criteria: the person who, for better or worse, personified our times and will be recorded by history as having the most lasting significance. I explain how we arrived at that conclusion in a story on page 48. Let us know if you agree. Either way, I'm confident that you'll appreciate the work of the great writers who make personal the legacies of all three of our finalists...
...SIMPSON ACQUITTED: The football star was charged, and found not guilty, in the 1994 murder of ex-wife Nicole and her acquaintance Ron Goldman SPAWNED: Best sellers by previously unknown writers; Marcia Clark's TV career; Johnnie Cochran's TV career...