Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into his sexual history. To many, that seemed to offer no more than a dismal kind of justice. Complained one Times reporter: "It's two wrongs trying to make a right." Another asked, "Do we now run a piece about Willie Smith's father's sex life?" Popular Times columnist Anna Quindlen wrote in the newspaper the following Sunday that the daily's decision to publish the alleged victim's name was "beneath its traditions...
President George Bush calls it "a responsibility imposed by our successes" in the cold war. Columnist Pete Hamill calls it the new world odor. Fleeing Kurds, burying their dead in mountain tent cities, call it misery...
...such article, by Mona Charen, a columnist who appears regularly in The Boston Globe, suggests that feminists, allying themselves with the proponents of the sexual revolution, have been partially responsible for discrediting the notion that women should be treated with "particular care and respect," a notion that, she states, "served the interests of women," since women, the "smaller and weaker sex," "cannot thrive in a world where men are not socialized to control themselves...
...other hand, says Washington columnist Marianne Means, Kitty is "very warm. She's not secretive, but she doesn't talk about herself a lot. She's fun to be with." Jack Limpert, editor of Washingtonian magazine, which lists Kelley on the masthead, says, "She's a relentless reporter. You've got to give it to her. She works very hard." Limpert does not discuss the widespread conviction of other journalists, as well as Kelley's own subjects, that she too frequently fails to bring perspective or analysis to the fruits of her reporting and at times lards her work with...
...famous frolicked, and parlayed the piece into The Glamour Spas, a book flecked with naughty gossip. This brought her to the attention of New Jersey celebrity-book publisher Lyle Stuart, who sent her off to do a job on Jackie Onassis. Kelley's friend at the time, gossip columnist Liz Smith, gave her voluminous files on Jackie, and Kitty set out on a tireless quest for the down and dirty. The book, Jackie Oh!, revealed little that had not been told before, but it was a best seller nonetheless...