Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...policy could change. The Senate, led by rebellious Republicans, proceeded to draw up a bill to apply further sanctions. Desmond Tutu, the Anglican Archbishop-elect of South Africa, called the speech "nauseating" and added that "the West, for my part, can go to hell." As New York Times Columnist James Reston put it, "Reagan tried unsuccessfully to persuade the extremists on both sides and lost the moderates in the process...
...fall in," wrote Playwright Terry Johnson. For Heartburn to work, the moviegoer must fall in love with Mark, as Rachel does, then fall out with a crash. So why are these opposites attracted to each other? Not because Rachel is a food writer and Mark is a Washington columnist. But because, up there on the screen, Rachel is Meryl Streep, swathed in easy glamour, and Mark is that cuddly predator Jack Nicholson. Heartburn is a movie about old- fashioned Hollywood star quality -- the sort that, say, Irene Dunne and Cary Grant radiated almost 50 years ago in another love...
Acertain statue was recently hyped so vulgarly that every columnist on the East Coast has had a crack at the 200 Elvis impersonators. The celebration affirmed this country's wish to be symbolized accurately by a beacon of liberty and equal opportunity...
...movie revolves around Rachel, a New York food writer, who meets, falls in love with and marries Mark Forman, a Washington columnist. These three events happen literally within ten minutes of each other. On their first date Rachel and Mark sleep together and she tells him, "I'm never getting married again." Lo and behold, the next scene is her wedding party...
Samuel Brittan, an economics columnist and assistant editor of London's Financial Times, admitted that "the outlook for world trade liberalization is not good," but added, "The surprise is that it is not worse." He noted that the volume of world trade is expected to grow at least 4% to 5% this year. That is a mild increase over 1985, but only half the 1984 rate. Brittan singled out nontariff barriers to trade, like voluntary quotas, as particular villains in that sluggishness...