Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Green, Washington Post columnist Judith Mann, Warden's friend Patricia Alger and Warden's daughter Staci spoke during the service, which was conducted by the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals, and the Rev. Emmanuel Metaxes, of the Greek Orthodox Church Taxiarchae in Watertown...
Although, as a columnist, I am required by law not to substantiate my opinionated assertions, I will offer you proof that drag is king (or, I suppose, queen) of the movies...
These bizarre juxtapositions, commingling the solemn and the sordid, helped forge the legend of Big Brother as newspaper columnist. In the words of a 1933 ad slogan, WINCHELL HE SEES ALL HE KNOWS ALL. With its rightful emphasis on the power-mad side of Winchell's persona, Gabler's biography validates Burt Lancaster's chilling portrayal of gossipmonger J.J. Hunsecker in the 1957 film The Sweet Smell of Success. (In real life, Winchell, in cinema noir fashion, had his daughter Walda carted off to an asylum in a straitjacket in paternal rage against an unsuitable marriage.). The same haunting sense...
Amid the rich detail, Gabler at times poetically captures the desperate hunger that fueled Winchell. There is a telling scene of the columnist wading in the surf at Miami Beach in the late 1940s with his lawyer Ernest Cuneo. "Well, King Canute," asks Cuneo, "what more do you really want?" With tremendous vehemence, Winchell replies, "I want all the news in the world." Then the world's most powerful columnist adds, "And all its money too." With these values Winchell would truly be at home in the 1990s...
...weeks before he paraded his "Republican Contract with America," he held what a participant called a "serious, intense" dinner at the Republican Capitol Hill Club with G.O.P. intellectuals skeptical of the gimmick. They included Bill Kristol, president of the Project for a Republican Future, the economist and columnist Lawrence Kudlow, and Wall Street Journal editor Robert L. Bartley. Observes Kristol, a senior Bush Administration official: "Newt's a complicated man; there's a lot of ego there, and there's a little bit of susceptibility to grandiose promises. He can sort of invent this giant scheme for the future...