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Swasy is now enduring one of the two main results of the subpoena epidemic, a chill on her work because confidential sources may not feel safely anonymous. Other reporters have faced worse. In recent months, Libby Averyt of Texas' Corpus Christi Caller-Times and Brian Karem of KMOL-TV in San Antonio were jailed briefly for withholding unpublished or confidential information. Jail, fines or other punishments were threatened against reporters at the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Houston Post and Chronicle, Oakland Tribune and even Florida's Stuart News and Oklahoma's Pryor Daily Times...
...with distinction. The first short story he ever sold won an O. Henry Award in 1975. His second novel, Union Dues (1977), was nominated for both the National Book and National Book Critics Circle awards. And The Return of the Secaucus Seven, a low-budget forerunner of The Big Chill and the first movie he ever made, was cited as 1980's best screenplay by the Los Angeles film critics. No wonder the 40-year-old Sayles has a near legendary reputation for artistic ambidexterity...
...such a man. Singleton is aware that the ghetto is the chanciest of universes where one's fate can be determined by a moment's loss of temper. Or by standing on the wrong corner at the wrong time. Even in its warmest moments, there is a fearful chill in this hood's air. And on the hearts of its boyz...
...freezing blast that is hitting the industry, the economic recession that began last summer represents the "wind-chill factor," says Young & Rubicam chairman Peter Georgescu. Ad spending, which rose only 2.4% last year, to $128.6 billion, is expected to increase just 3.1% this year, according to McCann-Erickson's Robert Coen, the industry's leading forecaster. In order to cut costs and ride out the slump, Madison Avenue has trimmed hundreds of professionals from its ranks during the past year -- and the / cutbacks are far from over...
...time to chill. Here's a representative lyric from Efil4zaggin, the latest album by the rap group N.W.A. (Niggers with Attitude): "This is the bitch that did the whole crew/ She did it so much we made bets on who the ho would love to go through . . ./ And she lets you videotape her/ And if you got a gang of niggers the bitch'll let you rape...