Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What Gray offers is a prized Washington commodity called access. His specialty is the returned phone call. "A Bob Gray can get your case heard," says Jack Albertine, president of the American Business Conference. Declares the New Republic columnist TRB: "Gray's firm has broken new ground in the brazenness with which it presents itself as selling not legal services or even public relations, but connections pure and simple...
...take a gossipy look at Embassy Row cock tail bashes the next, then weigh in with an exhaustive account of an unknown couple throwing a party to celebrate their divorce. The section, although sometimes self-indulgent and verbose, attracts much of the best prose in the Post, especially from Columnist Henry Mitchell, Feature Writer Myra MacPherson, Book Critic Jonathan Yardley and TV Critic Tom Shales. Nonetheless, the paper's culture coverage is spotty and seems driven more by the tastes of particular Post writers than by the interests of the reader...
...Editor Martin Nolan has given the opinion columns the same grace and punch he gave the paper's Washington bureau, and Washington Reporters Tom Oliphant and Curtis Wilkie are highly respected. Baseball Writer Peter Gammons may be that sport's most influential daily chronicler. Among other assets: Columnist Ellen Goodman, Humorist Diane White, Music Critic Richard Dyer and Editorial Writer Kirk Scharfenberg...
While the paper reported that it did not know what, if anything, Winans got in return for the leaks, which violated a detailed Journal ethics policy,- it noted that the columnist frequently complained about the size of his salary. He continued to do so after receiving a $35-a-week raise last November that boosted his weekly income to $610. Among other things, Winans said he was distressed by the large medical bill owed by Carpenter, whose health had been weakened by a case of leukemia that has been in remission for years...
...James M. Shannon (D-Lawrence) answering a question from The Boston Globe columnist Robert L. Turner that seemed to he a direct challenge to Shannon's reputation as an "insider" who doesn't arouse the publicity someone like Markey does, said he would bring "tough policy making to the Senate...