Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ARTICLE was by Nick Wurf, a Harvard sophomore, who wrote his impressions of Duluth and Bulldogmania. They were, well, say, uncomplimentary, the work of a junior Jim Murray, a noted columnist who has taken on larger cities than Duluth and bigger teams than the Bulldogs...
When Tom Callahan was asked to join TIME as a sportswriter almost four years ago, he hesitated. He was reluctant to give up the freedom he had enjoyed for ten years as a newspaper columnist, first at the Cincinnati Enquirer and later at the Washington Star. But Managing Editor Ray Cave, a former sports journalist, was not looking for just a reporter. "He told me he wanted the section to read like a column," Callahan recalls. "I was to write in my own voice." Since then, Callahan has, in his inimitable fashion, described Super Bowls and World Series, Masters tournaments...
Syndicated Columnist Patrick Buchanan has been one of the Reagan Administration's sternest critics from the right. He has taken a harder line than the President on arms control, and described a modest jobs bill backed by Reagan as part of "a series of calculated maneuvers to soften the image of Mr. Conservative into Mr. Conciliation." Buchanan has been even more suspicious of his colleagues in the press: as a White House speechwriter from 1969 to 1974, he crafted some of Vice President Spiro Agnew's most caustic attacks on the news media. In a column last year Buchanan described...
...study sparked a stinging exchange between Rukeyser and Financial Columnist Dan Dorfman, who wrote about the study in a Jan. 14 New York magazine column. Said Dorfman: "Here's a surefire way to lose a buck--and fast." Dorfman's column suggests that Rukeyser tends to select guests whose ideas are already in vogue on Wall Street. By the time the experts appear on the show, their favored stocks may have nearly crested...
...thought he was being informal and was really Harold Truman." At the Kremlin, Nikita Khrushchev admonishes his journalist son-in-law, "Does Izvestiya have to be boring? I suppose so, otherwise I would send you to Gulag." But Buckley's most cutting remarks come from newspapers of the day: Columnist Walter Lippmann assures his readers, " 'The present Cuban military buildup is not capable of offensive action.' " The New York Times reports that not even " 'a water pistol, as one official put it,' " had got through to Cuba...