Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pont seem like opposites -- he relaxed and playful, she rather cool and proper. Their friends contend that deep down, they are very much alike. Both are efficient, highly organized and quietly but fiercely competitive. She ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1984 with a combative but haughty campaign. (One columnist, in a wicked play on her name, dubbed her "Elite Bouffant.") She has taken a leave from her real estate business to campaign for her husband, but insists that she will not "merely be a dutiful wife." Within the confines of Delaware's upper class, the two-career du Ponts...
...late 40s, Sports Columnist Doug Gardner is divorced. His ex-wife glamorously remarries and surrounds their teenagers with luxuries. Doug is suddenly uncertain of anything, even jogging: Do you get the benefits of extra endurance now, he wonders, "when you're still able to eat a pastrami sandwich, or at the end when you're already on a life-support system?" The gloomy sportswriter imagines his own funeral, but it is only his columns that die. Corman offers savage, sparkling portraits of the hustlers and operators of professional sport, including a newspaper owner who believes in the lowest common dominator...
Ultimately, the urge to inform overrides the obligation to entertain. Perhaps punditry is not the best preparation for fiction. Safire the columnist is entitled to his belief that the stuff of life can be summed up in political thrusts and parries. Safire the novelist would have been better off if he had allowed himself, and his imagination, more freedom...
...Warm Springs" and then in the 1944 election failed to report his weakened health. Such dereliction shocked Reston and put him on guard against presidential intimacy. "In 40 years, I've only been in the living quarters of the White House five times," he says, and disapproves of Columnist George Will's "taking Nancy Reagan to lunch...
...Columnist William Safire turns to fiction with a 1,125- page Civil War novel but is swamped by facts. -- A powerful Joyce Carol Oates...