Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Columnist Joseph Kraft: "The Reagan Administration [is] ripping itself apart. . . the President and his closest associates seem to lack the political energy and the grasp of detail required for a mid-term renewal...
...Columnist Patrick J. Buchanan, who would feel libeled if called a liberal: "The White House is in full retreat-and if the President does not step out into the middle of the road and fire a pistol into the air, it will degenerate into a rout. Upon that assessment, those rejoicing at the spectacle and those sick at heart over it are in concurrence." Buchanan is among the sick at heart...
This rivalry slices deeper than most, affecting the towns as much as the teams. Washington-based Columnist Art Buchwald, who bows to no one in his disdain for the Cowboys, has smoked seven cigars in a single Dallas game and does not remember exhaling. Speaking as a Texan (Spur, Texas; pop. 1,690) living in Washington, Writer Aaron Latham describes the ill feelings he harbors toward the Redskins: "It's a gut reaction. I distrust and dislike Government, and that's what the city is all about...
...complaints from the Administration. On Election Night, Gergen telephoned CBS White House Correspondent Lesley Stahl to condemn remarks made by her and her colleagues that the results were a referendum on Reaganomics and that it was likely to be "a Democratic night." Ten days later, Reagan complained to conservative Columnist James Kilpatrick that TV coverage of the economy was persistently unfair. Said Kilpatrick, paraphrasing Reagan: "CBS in particular, he remarked, seemed determined to distort the economic picture by excessive concentration on the bad news...
Judith Martin, 44, the columnist "Miss Manners," on not wanting to kiss fellow TV talk-show guests: "It's a form of name dropping. I simply come out and say, 'How do you do?' very stiffly. It drives them crazy-and it's not without malice...