Word: columnist
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...tavern quarrel. As the book tells it, Brennan favored a retrial but decided to join in the majority opinion. Reason: Brennan was concerned that Harry Blackmun, who wrote the opinion, would be "personally offended" if he dissented and thus might not support him in other cases. New York Times Columnist Anthony Lewis decided to probe this account of cynical legal horse-trading, which the book suggested was based on the recollection of an unnamed former Brennan clerk. Lewis found the ex-clerk, Paul R. Hoeber, now a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Hoeber denied that...
When it comes to tweaking a nose -liberal, moderate Republican, even a lofty, aquiline proboscis like his own-no one is more skilled. Editor of National Review, host of Firing Line, syndicated columnist and author of half a dozen political treatises and collections of essays, William F. Buckley Jr. has long been one of the most delightful tweakers in America. But when it comes to writing of international intrigue, the author still has a lot to learn...
...vote to Johnson's mere 49.5%. Four years later, George McGovern "beat" the heavy favorite, Edmund Muskie, in the same state by polling a decisive 37% to Muskie's meager 46%. " 'Unexpected' is one of the words reporters use to cover their mistakes," says Political Columnist Richard Reeves. "Did the voters do something they didn't expect to do on Election Day? Of course not." Adds NBC's David Brinkley: "In the end, a candidate either gets votes or doesn't. All the expecting in the world can't change that...
...reportorial criticism of Carter is less concerned about his policies. Columnist Broder recalls that the press got "unshirted hell-and deservedly so" after the 1972 campaign for letting Nixon get away without having to defend his policies in the rough-and-tumble of debate. Broder is not happy with the defense that "our work is to cover a campaign, not to stage it." As Andrew Glass, Washington bureau chief for Cox newspapers, puts it: "We must not let Carter 'Nixonize' us." The smoke-him-out brigade is gaining some influential press volunteers...
...their fantasies. The new book details 200 of the more than 3,000 fantasies sent in, and though they are hardly a random sampling, she thinks it gives a fair idea of what men daydream about. To check that impression, she took a job anonymously as a sex-fantasy columnist for a girlie magazine; sure enough, the fantasies sent in during her yearlong stint were much the same as those from readers of her book. She found that the sexually voracious woman is one of the most popular themes, as is the fantasy of performing oral sex. Unlike women...