Word: columnist
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Many of Kovacs' live appearances, too, are gone for good. A onetime actor and newspaper columnist, Kovacs began his TV career as a local daytime host on Philadelphia's WPTZ in 1950. He was soon picked up by NBC and worked at one time or another for four networks (including the short-lived DuMont), hosting everything from a cooking program to several live comedy-variety shows, as well as a series of innovative comedy specials...
...earnest gas-station attendant." Liberal writers have dismissed him as ideologue, cretin and airhead, or worse. They have thought of Chauncey Gardiner, the transcendentally brainless seer in Jerzy Kosinski's novel Being There. Gardiner, in the eloquence of his idiocy, becomes a national oracle. "How humiliating," the columnist Nicholas von Hoffman wrote of Reagan in 1982, "to think of this unlettered, self-assured bumpkin being our President...
...court's decision stemmed from a libel suit against the Investigator, a magazine published by muckraking Columnist Jack Anderson. In three articles published in 1981, the Investigator charged that the ultraconservative Liberty Lobby and its founder, Willis Carto, were neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic and racist. Carto and his organization sued Anderson and the magazine, claiming that they had used patently unreliable sources...
...appeals judge, Scalia has been almost gratuitously antipress. He dissented from an opinion by his rival for the high court, Judge Bork, that threw out a suit by Bertell Ollman, a New York University professor who had been vilified as a Marxist by Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak. Bork held that the column was merely opinion and thus protected speech; Scalia argued that it was "a coolly crafted libel." In his 100-page dissent, Scalia wondered why columnists, "even with full knowledge of the falsity or recklessness of what they say, should be able to destroy private reputations...
...earlier, signaling that something literary might be up, Commissioner Peter Ueberroth whimsically interrupted the amateur free-agent draft to award the New York Yankees a "special pick," G. Frederick Will of University High School in Champaign, Ill. Shopped as a fledgling shortstop, Will in truth is a fully developed columnist, usually called George, who cannot go to his left. He is 45, Giamatti 48, but they seemed as connected by chance as Tinker and Evers, for the dreamy realizations of Will brought home the realized dreams of Giamatti, who seemed to begin exploring this uncommon transfer in his 1977 essay...