Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Europeans, however, have been growing increasingly cool to the idea of sanctions. Explained Italian Columnist Alfredo Pieroni: "The hostages are not a global problem. In a world thirsty for petroleum, it is not productive to push one of the great oil producers into the arms of the Soviet Union." Said a senior West German Chancellery aide: "The trick with sanctions is to squeeze the Iranians enough to be persuasive without alienating them entirely. But in the long run, sanctions never work anyway...
...nouveau, for instance, but he retained its liking for large, silhouetted masses, and they, grafted onto the pervasive influence of Toulouse-Lautrec, keep appearing in his Parisian cabaret scenes of 1901. Some of these are of remarkable intensity. Picasso painted Gustave Coquiot, a fashionable Paris art and theater columnist, as a sinister god of urban pleasure, green shadows straining against red lips in a pale mask of a face. Some of the women, their faces blurred by laughter or squinched up into pug masks of greed, seem to predict by ten years the jittery misogyny of German expressionism. Woman...
These events formed the basis for a television show which New York Times political columnist Mobil Oil has labeled "A new fairy tale." But the events are real, and they took place in Saudi Arabia only three years...
What is most striking about Will is what it reveals about the kind of man who will do anything to stop those he sees as his country's enemies. Liddy tells how he plotted to kill Columnist Jack Anderson and drug Daniel Ellsberg for revealing classified information. After Howard Hunt, his Watergate crony, cooperated with investigators, Liddy fully expected to get, and made plans to carry out, an order to kill him. Liddy remains unrepentant. He regrets only that so many others failed to keep their silence. Perhaps more than any of the Watergate characters, Liddy embodied the principles...
...introduced me under my operational alias, "George Leonard." We lunched in the Hay Adams Hotel, just across Lafayette Park from the White House. The purpose of the luncheon, Hunt had explained to me previously, was to prepare, for the approval of Hunt's "principal," a plan to stop columnist Jack Anderson. Hunt and I often used the term "my principal" rather than identify our superiors. I, at least, had several. Hunt, to my knowledge, had only one: Chuck Colson...