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...gains. But he still managed to give the Republicans only about 18 safe districts, meaning that the Democrats could wind up with a nine-seat advantage this fall. "It resembles nothing so much as a jigsaw puzzle designed by an inmate of a mental institution," wrote Dan Walters, a columnist for the Sacramento Union. Said Burton with a shrug: "It's my contribution to modern...
...watershed that signalled the press's turn-around seems to have been an article last month by New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis '48. Discussing how Washington reporters had insisted on giving the President an easy ride in spite of his errors. Lewis argued that the press has almost deliberately covered up Reagan's gaffes. Lewis implicitly called upon other members of the Fourth Estate to stop cushioning Reagan and to start playing up his ineptitude...
...world on her Foster Grandparent program and her promotion of drug rehabilitation. Further, something has happened in the press. The stories have softened. There has been a backlash in favor of the resolute First Lady with the Adolfo pattern. After writing a particularly harsh piece, a Washington Post columnist was deluged with mail expressing outrage-at the columnist, not Mrs. Reagan. George Gallup polled Americans and found her the woman they most admired...
According to Nigel Dempster's keyhole narrative, the figurehead has lived "a life unfulfilled." Whether she might have been happier as Prime Minister or nanny is unspecified; certainly she could have had a more gratifying Boswell. Dempster, 40, is a gossip columnist for the London Daily Mail, and throughout, if Margaret is the Disappointed Princess, he is the Old Pretender, stating the loftiest intentions, then betraying them with yet another innuendo...
Questions about the New York Times piece were first raised last month by Village Voice Columnist Alexander Cockburn. He was incredulous at what Jones espied through binoculars one dark night during a jungle skirmish. Jones wrote: "On the summit of a distant hillside, I saw a figure that made me catch my breath: a pudgy Cambodian, with field glasses hanging from his neck. The eyes in his head looked dead and stony. I could not make him out in any detail, but I had seen enough pictures of the supreme leader to convince me, at that precise second, that...