Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taken somewhat seriously. Doesn't this bother anybody? It's mob rule, just like our hypothetical post-nuclear-winter France. It's also a power trip for the columnist, just to write blather and occasionally slip in things like...
...sports columnist--sarcasm dripping from his pen like water--wrote the next day that Sure, the ENTIRE wrestling team got involved in a HUGE BRAWL against the coach's wishes. Riiiight. What-ever. Come on, he told the readers. We all know the coach was in on it, and we can't set this example for our kids...
...book does not say that to talk about a thing is the same as doing the thing," she says. But she doesn't always resist the opportunity to court confusion between the two. "Please disavow this rape of me in your name," she asked Nat Hentoff, the syndicated columnist and hard- line defender of the First Amendment, whose last name Romano had borrowed for his fictional reviewer. (The Dworkin part Romano lifted from another First Amendment stalwart, the legal scholar Ronald Dworkin.) Hentoff complied by publishing a column angrily doing just that. "Rape also means plundering or pillaging," he wrote...
...Columnist William Safire, commenting on the Senator Packwood follies, observed that our diaries reveal our youthful selves to our aging selves, and that we should not be surprised if what we see sometimes makes us wince. Annas suggests that the genetic revolution has reversed that proposition. Our genes, he says, could serve as "future diaries" that will reveal our aging selves to our youthful selves...
Twelve-year term limits will restore Congressional authority and encourage thoughtful debate about public policy, conservative columnist George F. Will told a crowd of over 600 at the Kennedy School of Government Wednesday evening...