Word: contributors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first Stewartt had a tough job explaining to earthbound environmentalists how Lighthawk might be useful. That changed after a successful four-year fight that led to the shutdown of the smoke-belching Phelps Dodge copper smelter at Douglas, Ariz., a notorious contributor to the West's airborne sulphur-dioxide levels. Now Stewartt, with five salaries to guarantee, two planes to maintain and the costly prospect of buying three more, spends half his time raising money. He has no house, no wife and lives out of a flight...
...inmate sent an unsolicited article to Peter Sussman, editor of Sunday Punch, the paper's weekly features and commentary section. Sussman was impressed by the story -- a harrowing account of the indiscriminate sexual assignations of several AIDS-infected inmates -- and decided to run it. Soon Martin became a regular contributor, with a series of pointed and well-read pieces about life behind bars at Lompoc...
...took on anecdotal grandeur: his glamorous New England ancestors, his childhood in Quincy, Mass., as the second son of a failed father and domineering mother, his expulsion from Thayer Academy, his struggles to make his name as a writer during the 1930s, and his growing < recognition as a regular contributor of short stories to The New Yorker; then marriage and three children -- Susan, Ben, Federico -- and the move to the exurbs north of New York City; increasing renown, novels, prizes, alcoholism, depression, extramarital affairs; finally, the kicking of alcohol and the redemption of finding himself rich and famous...
Three years later, Iyer took a leave of absence from TIME to explore Asia in greater depth. That trip resulted in Video Night, a series of lively meditations on the blending of Eastern and Western culture overseas. He became a contributor in 1986, and is now spending a year in Kyoto. His second book, he declares, will be an introspective work "about staying in one place; about discovering roots and angling for depths. It will be a travel book about an inner adventure." This summer and fall he intends to spend time in London, Southeast Asia, Seoul (for the Olympics...
...said to prize the top spot at American ! Vogue or perhaps even Liberman's post as editorial director. Brown's long-term interests, on the other hand, seem to lie outside fashion journalism. "She has a fascination for Hollywood that has not begun to be exhausted," says Vanity Fair Contributor Dominick Dunne. For now, however, both women claim that it is challenge enough to run their shops efficiently and try to make it home to their children by dinnertime...