Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to the law, the prosecution need not prove damage to win a conviction, but any jury that might hear the case will probably be more sympathetic than the Justice Department. Wrote Atlanta Constitution Columnist Bill Shipp: "Bert Lance has about as much chance of being convicted by a jury in north Georgia as I have of winning the Irish sweepstakes. And I never buy a ticket...
...Another member, former Gary, Ind., Post-Tribune Columnist Don Ross, is now a public relations consultant in Tulsa. "I'm envious as hell of Russell's Pulitzer, which I think should have gone to a black," quips Ross...
Intensely personal columns by other writers make this private man uneasy. "It's a terrible problem examining one's entrails in public," says Baker. John Leonard, also of the New York Times, is a columnist whose bouts with existential despair are on weekly view, with results that range from considerable heroics to embarrassing displays of bad taste. Baker has never exploited his family for material, with the forgivable exception of some memorable columns celebrating the archetypal awfulness of vacation car treks along the New Jersey Turnpike. Now and then he rules out a topic for a while because...
When Baker began to write the "Observer," he says, he had no notion that failure was a possibility, only a determination not to let his columns fall into an easily identifiable category. "You get onto a columnist, you know. There's foxy grandpa, there's the font of wisdom, there's Mr. Inside Information, and I was trying to mix it up, like a junk-ball pitcher in baseball keeping them off balance." He laughs. "You get older and lose your fastball and there's more junk. It was easy to be angry, but I felt you couldn...
...slow the advance of that luncheon meat. Like Baker, Nachman has begun to avoid politics. "It doesn't touch people's lives like dealing with the phone company does," he explains. "In the real world, people go for weeks without thinking of Jimmy Carter. As a humor columnist, I wish there were a new President every six months...