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...best reporters are outsiders," but they are often "outsiders who crave to be insiders," said Pulitzer Prize winning author J. Anthony Lukas, quoting author Gay Talese...
Like North, the rest of the cowboys tend to be hard-line conservatives who crave adventure and seem to generate controversy. Howard Teicher, 35, a respected expert on the Middle East, recently emerged as a source of a Washington disinformation campaign designed to suggest, among other things, that the U.S. was planning military moves against Libya. The Administration caused a furor last month when it admitted that the reports were false...
...fashions and opinions are modified toward sameness by the examples of what millions of Americans watch. It also seems to me that television achieves part of its power by appealing to human weaknesses. The habit of viewing it does not encourage reflection or contemplation. The eye is trained to crave novelty, while the brain rests or slumbers. Political debate, which during my last visit seemed a passion and a recreation among Americans, has shrunk to brief bursts of pleasant images. And television's ascent has coincided with a measurable decline in the ability of young people to read. Democracy cannot...
...those who crave book-hunting adventures and are not disposed to claustrophobia, there are several used book specialists with popular and obscure titles. Aisles are narrow here, but lighting at McIntyre and Moore Bookshops (30 Plympton St.) is enough to allow reading. Fairly academic volumes line the shelves, and it sports large literary criticism, philosophy and medieval history sections. Across the street is the Starr Bookshop (29 Plympton St.) nestled in the east end of the Lampoon Castle. It's got two floors of mostly scholarly texts...
...think Spielberg is "a little too young and too successful. He has done so well, it may be a long time before anyone bestows on him any brassworks for the fireplace"). But even with that statuette, one suspects that Spielberg would still be restless. He would still crave those moments when he can spin amazing stories for himself, his kid sisters and a world of children in the dark. To demand that he revoke his inexhaustible thirst for wonder would be like asking Dickens to be Dreiser, or Peter Pan to settle down and become complacent old Mr. Darling...