Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While one Globe columnist declared war on Washington, Art Buchwald called for an end to the silly debate about which city is more deserving. Besides, he said, "Bostonians can't tell a Picasso from a hockey puck." Buchwald, you're no help...
...month at Boston's elegant Parker House, the nonstop chatter about special advertising sections and "upscale demographics" finally touched off a flurry of selfcriticism. "I get this vision of [readers as] some sort of sausage, into which you jam all the consumer goods you can," said Village Voice Columnist Alexander Cockburn. On the final afternoon of the three-day affair, the delegates rather selfconsciously voted to insert "alternative" into the association's name. IF. Stone, the archetype of maverick journalists, picked up on their discomfiture in his keynote speech that night: "I understand you have qualms about being...
...have announced that they do not discriminate in hiring or promoting people because they are homosexual. Television and movies are treating gay themes more openly and sympathetically. ABC's hit series Soap, for example, has two homosexual characters, one a macho football player. Another sign of the times: Advice Columnist Ann Landers, a stalwart champion of traditional morality, now counsels parents not to be ashamed of their homosexual children...
...When the votes were counted, Byrne had 82.1% of the vote-the biggest landslide in Chicago history. The political heirs of the late Richard J. Daley were impressed. "A gracious woman . . . a young woman ... a girl," stammered Cook County Democratic Leader George Dunne, searching for a handle. Sun-Times Columnist Mike Royko, who milked the bestselling Boss from Daley's two decades in office, already refers to the gracious woman . . . young woman . . . girl as "Mayor Bossy...
...this, Columnist Russell Baker replies that much of what daily newspapers print is also trash: "The difference is that people in the newspaper industry tend to blame themselves for the low-quality stuff while TV executives tend to shift the blame to their audience...