Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they looked for news, all three networks padded their coverage with pretaped features and with live wisdom from special commentators. Bill Moyers, Jeff Greenfield and James Kilpatrick had a sparkling chemistry on CBS, and Syndicated Columnist George Will, one of four print people signed by ABC, is worth listening to any time. On NBC's morning Today show, Syndicated Columnist David Broder Sand the Washington Star's Jack Germond provided their usual informed analysis, but the ballyhooed commentary by Independent Presidential Candidate John Anderson was tepid...
What bothered some viewers was the capriciousness of the networks' intrusions on the convention. Frequently, they interrupted speeches in mid-sentence for floor commentaries that were no less boring-or for commercials. "Everybody under stands the need for commercials," said Columnist William F. Buckley. "I mind much less yielding to Wheaties than I mind yielding to pundits...
EVERYONE HAD WEIRD NICKNAMES, and they spent their afternoons conversing in bars, the talk often sentimental and always funny. He was kind to them--maybe he realized that his life could well have been spent behind a Seven & Seven, not a typewriter. But the paunchy columnist who wrote sad humor like no one else ever will could not bring himself to admit that even New York had its share of unredeemable scum, that bum was a nice word for derelict, that plenty of criminals were vicious, not loveable. And, in his whole menagerie, there was one character he never drew...
...police force features a sentimental cop, name of 'Ankles,' because he keeps the peace by kicking transgressors in the ankles with his size 14's. This is, after all, what you'd expect; Hamill is, as they say at Aqueduct, out of Breslin by brother Pete Hamill, the barroom columnist for a "newspaper" called the New York Post...
...emphasize the Government's role in industrial policy, former White House Adviser Amitai Etzioni, a renowned sociologist, coined the word reindustrialization. That jawbreaker was given cachet by Syndicated Columnist Joseph Kraft and quickly became a favorite of Capitol Hill trendmakers...