Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...argued that the selection of one of their cities would be taken by black Democrats as a significant gesture. When San Francisco won, not everyone took the news well. Snapped a petulant Young: "It is one of the most volatile cities in the country." Complained Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Mike Royko: "Do the Democrats want to be thought of as the party of quiche eaters and wine sippers...
...hearts and minds from voters wrestling with their 1040 forms. He also had his license to practice law suspended in 1969 for failing to perform legal services for which he had been retained. In any normal campaign, these issues would, of course, be serious enough. Writes New York Times Columnist William Safire: "If Mr. Washington were white, would it be remotely conceivable that his jail term and suspension from practice would not be pointed out on television by his opponent?" Yet his record is doubtless being used by some as a disingenuous rationale for voting against a black...
...President Kenan Evren, 65, has cracked down, sometimes harshly, on journalists, academics and cultural personalities who have expressed even mild opposition to the government. The measures have raised fears that the military leaders of NATO's easternmost member may renege on their pledge. Says the often pro-government columnist Metin Toker: "Whatever they do, it will not create an atmosphere in which democracy can function smoothly...
...takes the form of a memoir composed by Rachel Samstat, cookbook writer and veteran of two marriages. The first, to a neurasthenic "so neat he put hospital corners on the newspaper he lined the hamster cage with," is a mutual misunderstanding. The second, to Columnist Mark Feldman, is even more calamitous. As Rachel acknowledges, "The man is capable of having sex with a Venetian blind." Even so, she is astonished when, swollen with her second pregnancy, she learns that Mark has been sleeping with Washington Hostess Thelma Rice. "The most unfair thing about this whole business," she begins, "is that...
Occasionally Safire is guilty of a more serious offense, in the view of the Times. Says Editor Rosenthal: "Sometimes he goes too far on innuendo, even for a columnist." For example, on very scant evidence, Safire has unfairly suggested that Senator John Glenn is anti-Israel. He couples such impetuousness with a merry disregard for consistency. He quotes with self-satisfaction a line from Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself...