Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with TIME, the past three as Caribbean bureau chief covering such subjects as Central American revolutions and the Miami cocaine epidemic, McWhirter at first approached the assignment more as a fringe benefit than a job. Then he began to worry whether he was quite ready for a warm, wisecracking columnist whose chief concerns are the household gods. Says he: "Some journalists are fond of saying that the nice guys are the toughest, nice subjects the hardest. I didn't know: I could not remember the last time I had met one. What if I were to become the only...
...Hart's presidential campaign, might seem an unlikely buyer for U.S. News, a magazine that prides itself on a down-home flavor virtually devoid of literary flourishes and serves a predominantly Midwest and Sunbelt audience. Founded as a daily national newspaper in 1926 by David Lawrence, a syndicated columnist, it evolved into its present format after World War II. In contrast to TIME (U.S. circ. 4.6 million) and Newsweek (U.S. circ. 3 million), U.S. News downplays reportage of a week's events in favor of analysis of their impact on readers and gives scant, though increasing, attention...
Bentsen's manner is patrician and somber, his speaking style stolid, less rousing even than Mondale's. According to Dallas Times Herald Columnist Molly Ivins, Bentsen "has the charisma of a dead catfish." But he is nonetheless popular with both Republicans and Democrats in Texas and has a loyal following among Mexican Americans, who appreciate his fluency in Spanish. He won re-election in 1982 with 59% of the vote, the highest plurality in a Texas Senate race since 1958. Bentsen, however, might exacerbate Mondale's single biggest campaign embarrassment so far: the Texan gets more Political...
DIED. Leanita McClain, 32, sensitive, idealistic columnist for the Chicago Tribune and the first black member of the paper's editorial board, whose emotionally charged commentary reflected the tensions of the city's racially polarized politics; by her own hand (an overdose of pills), after bouts of depression brought on at least in part, friends said, by the strain of being a role model and by the furor resulting from an article she wrote for the Washington Post last summer titled "How Chicago Taught Me to Hate Whites," which prompted the city council to consider demanding an apology...
DIED. Manuel Buendia, 58, Mexico's leading syndicated political columnist, whose feisty front-page commentary in Mexico City's daily Excelsior frequently exposed corruption and criminality in the higher levels of the government, labor and business, and regularly attacked CIA involvement in Latin America; of gunshot wounds (while entering a parking lot, he was shot at least three times in the back by an assassin who escaped in the crowded streets); in Mexico City. His columns, which had recently zeroed in on corruption in the oil industry and its powerful union, had provoked several death threats...