Word: columnist
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Here is a surefire quiz to discover whether Strip Tease -- or any of the four earlier Florida caper novels by Miami Herald columnist Carl Hiaasen -- belongs on your nightstand. If you find these characters funny, then Hiaasen...
Larroquette's co-star from Night Court, Harry Anderson, is just as understated and engaging in CBS's Dave's World. This is a rare sitcom that exists to showcase not a star but a writer. Anderson plays humor columnist Dave Barry, a beleaguered family man facing a classic baby-boomer problem: trying to raise three kids while grappling with the realization that he is no longer a kid himself. He sings I Am the Walrus in the shower (then looks at his body and exclaims, "I am the walrus!"), and can't get up the fatherly gumption to force...
Hart, who is a senior editor of the conservative National Review, and a frequent columnist for the Dartmouth Review, writes that too many students finish college with no knowledge of the most important literatures of the Western world--"major works they ought to read in order to venture forth on the life of the mind...
Even if Clinton had planned his vacation in a more organized and less comic fashion -- if he had lined up that condo on Hilton Head Island in March -- he would not have taken full advantage of the opportunity an August progress can provide. When columnist Stewart Alsop visited Lyndon Johnson at the L.B.J. Ranch while Johnson was President, he was driven to make the most unlikely comparison: the L.B.J. Ranch, it occurred to him, had "odd echoes of Chartwell," the country place of Winston Churchill. "Mr. Churchill was marvelously and unashamedly proud of everything about Chartwell . . ." Alsop said years later...
Aware that his former partner Cagliari killed himself after being told he could not leave jail while the investigation into his misdeeds proceeded, Gardini apparently decided not to endure a similar imprisonment. "He was a fighter and he had tremendous pride," says one of his friends, author and columnist Enzo Biagi. "Most of all he valued his freedom." On the morning of July 23 Gardini woke at 7 a.m., took a shower and scanned the newspaper headlines. One read: GAROFANO ACCUSES GARDINI. Next to the bed where he killed himself, he left a one-word note to his family...