Word: coeburn
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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Something should be said early on, in this newly-revived column of press clips, about the dean of press clips himself, Dr. Press Clips, the successor to Hunter S. Thompson for our favorite cult journalist. We refer, of course, to Alexander Cockburn--pronounced Coeburn. For our money (and this is one of his favorite phrases), he is the best around. His weekly columns in The Village Voice have an obsessive quality, achieving for the mid-seventies what Dr. Thompson did for the violence and insanity of the Nixon years. Nixon's debacle finished Thompson--it was a final irony...
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