Word: columning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...item concerning Farrah Fawcett in the People column [July 4] was in poor taste. When you consider how many famous people have been murdered or wounded in recent years by crazed assailants, it is unforgivable to make fun of an incident in which a strange man leaps onto the stage and threatens the actress. She showed courage in the way she handled herself...
George Will is in a sense a victim of standards that have changed since Lippmann would write a speech for a public figure, then write a column praising the address. A number of Washington journalists decline to socialize after hours with those they report upon; others like Will consider the experience valuable and intend to go on doing so. But they are then under an obligation to be more forthcoming to the public about what they are doing. The line between journalistic detachment and participation may be wavery, but it is there, and George Will overstepped...
...zoning concessions. "The trouble was we didn't send anyone to jail," he lamented. "We're proud of explanatory journalism these days, but I think a couple of convictions is a wonderful way to explain the problem." In the final installment of his regular Sunday editorial-page column, McMullan skipped through a few farewell niceties, then unleashed a parting attack on the chaotic overdevelopment of Miami's congested downtown area. Said Bill Long, the Herald's chief of correspondents: "He was tough as nails right up to his last edition...
Thank you for Hugh Sidey's delightful column on political invective [June 20]. Unfortunately, a half-page summary cannot do justice to America's considerable contribution to the art of insult. One of the best flamethrowers in our early House of Representatives was the brilliant Virginia Congressman John Randolph. He once described a political foe as "a man of splendid abilities, but utterly corrupt. Like rotten mackerel by moonlight, he shines and stinks...
...Warsaw to see him. Jammed ten deep along the route of John Paul's motorcade, they raised homemade signs naming the cities from which they had come. Like the heroine of a Delacroix painting, one robust woman boldly thrust a banner reading GDANSK WELCOMES YOU toward a column of police as the procession filed past. The crowd roared its approval...