Word: columnist
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...Gossip columnist Liz Smith summed it up when she wrote, "Even if Trump is the truest, most flamboyant child of Mammon yet produced at this waning moment of the 20th century, I like his style." New York Times architecture critic Paul Goldberger took a graver view: "He has yet to commission a really serious work of architecture. If he has a style, it is flashiness. It's a malady of the age. Trump just represents it the most." Characteristically, Trump responded by sneering that Goldberger was unqualified to judge his buildings because he wore cheap suits...
There are approximately 40 radioactive Soviet satellites orbiting the earth today, all of which will ultimately fall back to earth. The prospect of what columnist Mary McGrory has called "flying Chernobyls" falling on our heads would frighten most of us, but the U.S. government isn't worried. Spurred on by Strategic Defense Initiative advocates, the government is planning to deploy its own earth-orbiting reactors, which would be hundreds of times more radioactive, and therefore many times more dangerous, than anything the Soviets have...
...lack of attention this problem receives is emblematic of our response to environmental dangers. Environmentalists warned us for years about the possibilities of the greenhouse effect, but politicians and the media didn't talk about it until last summer's heat wave. New York Times columnist James Reston has said that "the networks will only cover the environment when you get a picture of a forest that died." Will we need a disaster the size of Chernobyl to start thinking about nuclear satellites...
This week another columnist of formidable stature debuts in the World section under the title America Abroad. The author is Washington bureau chief Strobe Talbott, who has unraveled the complexities of foreign policy in a wide variety of TIME stories since 1971. Twice a month America Abroad will offer readers a regular opportunity to read one of Washington's most perceptive observers of foreign affairs. Says World editor James Kelly: "Talbott has the rare ability to explore complicated issues in a manner that is lucid and provocative...
...candidate: cold, arrogant and weak. Funny, that's not what they were saying in Atlanta, when he was 17 points up, and where his absurdly praised convention speech led one giddy columnist to compare him with "the heroes of ancient Greece...