Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both Sacramento and Washington, Weinberger loyally served his chiefs, accepting and ably defending spending programs much higher than he would have liked. He is remembered in Washington as a modest and unassuming man with a wide range of interests (he has been both a newspaper columnist and TV talk-show host in California) and something of an irreverent raconteur. He and his wife of 38 years, Jane, enjoy theater, opera and ballet; they have a son and a daughter. After leaving the Administration in 1975, Weinberger became a vice president and director of the Bechtel Group, an international construction...
...also the type Arthur Bremer used to gun down George Wallace in 1972-a grotesque coincidence that prompted Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Mike Royko to write, with biting effect: "Now that Charter Arms Corp. has the unique distinction of having two famous people shot by one of their products, I wonder if they have considered using it in their advertising. Something simple and tasteful like: 'The .38 that got George Wallace and John Lennon. See it at your gun dealer...
...allusions and intricate analogies, the pugnaciously polysyllabic Buckley wrote almost half the magazine himself in those early days. He also sought out aspiring young writers, not all of them conservatives. New Yorker Writer Renata Adler published some of her first articles for N.R., as did Novelist Joan Didion, Syndicated Columnist Garry Wills and New York Times Critic John Leonard. Says Leonard, hired...
Others of the London press were quick to criticize the Sunday Mirror. The paper had acted "disgracefully," editorialized the conservative Daily Mail. "It makes you wince," volunteered Columnist Jean Rook in the pro-Tory Daily Express. A Daily Mail article quoted Lady Diana as insisting: "I've never been anywhere near the train, let alone in the middle of the night." Prince Charles, in New Delhi on a state visit, observed that in the press, honesty and integrity "often get submerged in the general rush for sensationalism...
...they love not knowing." In the past few weeks newspapers have spread the latest Dallas trivia across their front pages. Las Vegas bookies have offered daily odds on the culprit (in the final line, Kristin was the favorite). Pundits have made merry speculating on the identity of the gunperson: Columnist Art Buchwald fingered David Brinkley because the scheduling of his NBC Magazine opposite J.R. had driven Brinkley to the bottom of the ratings...