Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anchorman Peter Jennings does not seem pleased by speculation that he is dating Barbra Streisand. Responding to reports that he'd shared a cuddly dinner with the chanteuse, he wrote gossip columnist Liz Smith a letter saying, "We spent the entire dinner discussing a speech Barbra was soon to give...
...needs of the citizenry. It is the reason Washington's "media elites" are so clueless as to what's really on America's mind. It is why voters get congressional gridlock when they want action, and congressional action when they want nothing in particular. In a typical indictment, one columnist recently called some piece of Washington policymaking "too secret, too expert, too Beltway...
MANY NEWSPAPER REPORTERS are convinced that they have a novel in them if only their damned editors and creditors would give them the time to write it. Pete Dexter, 51, is one of the happy few journalists who have lived up to this belief. While working as a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, he moonlighted God's Pocket (1984), a gritty story set in that city's seamier neighborhoods, which earned an unusual amount of attention for a first novel. Three others followed, including Paris Trout (1989), which won the National Book Award...
...long way. Like the word penis (before one was cut off), bitch (before the Speaker's mother used it) seldom found its way onto the nightly news. It was too sexual, too nasty to invoke outside gangsta rap and the barracks. "Remember," says language expert and New York Times columnist William Safire, "it's so offensive that Barbara Bush didn't use it but said that what Geraldine Ferraro was 'rhymes with rich.' " Defined by Webster as "the female of the dog, a lewd or immoral woman," it is uttered -- but usually only in private -- about such strong women...
...character she played on Designing Women. Suzanne has come to Washington to take over the congressional seat of her late husband. The show aims to update Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: the heroine is a naive ex-beauty queen from Georgia who doesn't know the difference between columnist William Safire and Sapphire, her maid, yet in her plainspoken way possesses more wisdom than the capital's sophisticates...