Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promptly became known, sent Israelis on a crazy buying spree. Laborites angrily charged that it was a shameless attempt to buy votes for which the country would have to pay later. Some middle-of-the-road opinion was also scandalized. "The Israeli government has suddenly evaporated," commented Columnist Amnon Dankner in Tel Aviv's daily Ha'aretz. "It is hovering over the earth like some pinkish cloud out of which there rains down on us every week Aridor's latest portion of manna." Nonetheless, the manna was fattening the average wage earner's buying power...
...Father Guido Sarducci, the fictional rock critic and gossip columnist for the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, the trip to Rome should have been something of a pilgrimage. But for Actor Don Novello, 38, who created Sarducci and often played him on TV's Saturday Night Live, the visit was less than heavenly. Decked out in priestly threads for a photo story for Attenzione, a magazine for Italian Americans published in New York City, Novello ventured past the Vatican walls for a shot outside L 'Osservatore 's offices. Swiss Guards soon collared the comic cleric...
...York columnist resigns...
...week's end another long-ball hitter's work was under investigation. New York Post Columnist James Wechsler raised questions about an article last year by Teresa Carpenter of the Village Voice, and said he was forwarding his misgivings to the National News Council. Carpenter was awarded a Pulitzer this year for three feature stories, including the challenged piece, after the Washington Post had forfeited the prize...
...fact, at the federal level, the N.R.A. has five full-time lobbyists, a group headed by Neal Knox, a sharp-penned columnist for various gun magazines. They are well-informed, savvy professionals, but occasionally their zeal exasperates, rather than impresses, even congressional allies. Last fall, the N.R.A. repeatedly tried to attach a bill loosening gun regulations onto a proposed, long-overdue revision of the federal criminal code. Several senatorial supporters of the N.R.A., including Republicans Paul Laxalt of Nevada and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, were upset at the tactic, fearing that years of work on the code would...