Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When health writers were asked to a private lunch with Jane Fonda last summer, one of the journalists panicked. "I have to be thin to meet Jane Fonda," thought the columnist, who then proceeded to binge compulsively on bagels. "Instead of eating one, I ate three." An understandable lapse for mere mortals summoned into the presence of the U.S. Goddess of Fitness. But the nervous nosher was a no less exalted figure: Jane Brody, the nation's High Priestess of Health. At the meeting of the two unrestrained Janes, though, it all worked out true to form. Brody, after politely...
Joshua H. Henkin's editorial of October 30, constitutes the beginning of an articulate rebuttal to Washington columnist Richard Cohen's assault on the individual rights of Blacks. At issue is the "ethical dilemma" faced by a Washington, D.C. jewelry store owner who wonders whether to admit a young Black man at the front-door buzzer. Henkin defends the rights of the individual not to be judged by his color, but he misses the preeminent point to be made here...
...Boston Herald's notorious gossip columnist, Norma Nathan a.k.a. "The Eye," has her eyes on Harvard...
...book, Boston's Most Eligible Bachelors, lists the The Harvard Gazette's new managing editor, David Sanders, as one of those select few. Sanders, who won acclaim as the public relations flak for Harvard's 350th anniversary celebration, apparently has the qualities Nathan wants. In her book, the local columnist lists each hunk's occupation, approximate income and a brief physical description...
Poor Jimmy Breslin. After 36 years as a sports reporter, crusading columnist and New York City character, he finally lands his own network TV show, only to find himself at the end of a very long line. In New York, for instance, the Friday edition of his late-night talk show does not air until Monday. Then a viewer has to outlast an ABC Monday-night football game that usually wraps up after midnight, a half-hour local newscast, Nightline with Ted Koppel and Nightlife with David Brenner before Breslin's mug finally appears on the screen, somewhere around...