Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Huge celebrity, accompanied by great wealth, can occasionally befall an odd character, especially when television is involved. But has there ever been a more unlikely national figure than John Madden, the animated elephant who used to coach the Oakland Raiders and now instructs the country in its most bewildering sport...
The hook in this remark is that the speaker happens to be an innovative character in a historical novel of a high imaginative order. Flanagan, 64, a professor of English at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, first demonstrated his gift for evoking the past in the constant...
The press, which considers itself the arbiter of how long anyone lasts in the limelight, doesn't like to have that judgment challenged. Having once buried Gary Hart politically, first with its coverage of the Donna Rice weekend, then with editorials pronouncing him too flawed in character to be President...
Television made Ollie North a celebrity. Journalists had cast him as a heavy in the Iran-contra scandal, but his bravura performance as a witness -- emotional, defiant, patriotic -- led to a national outburst of Olliemania. McCarthy, Agnew and North were quite dissimilar in deeds and in character, but of each...
When first criticized for their reporting of Hart's private life, journalists cited bounden duty to probe the personal character of those who volunteer to be President, since just about anyone can run and so many do. To judge by polls, people believe that the sex scandal should have been...