Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...journalism career with a part-time job at the Houston Chronicle after graduating from Sam Houston State Teachers College. He moved to a local radio station, then to KHOU-TV, the CBS affiliate in Houston. His intrepid coverage of Hurricane Carla, which swept over Galveston in 1961, caught the eye of CBS executives, who soon hired him as a correspondent...
Television is not necessarily the enemy of rational thought. Sometimes the medium serves brilliantly, not only to display events but also to analyze them. Ted Koppel's Nightline on ABC is intelligent and penetrating. The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour on public television has a clear, steady eye and the time to explore issues thoroughly, without the headlong rush against the clock that was, in part, Dan Rather's problem with George Bush. With Firing Line, William F. Buckley Jr. has done a pioneer's work in civilizing discussion on television. But the temptations of television -- spectacle, flash, the short attention span...
...eye of television has presided in an eerily total way over the presidential campaign. Although the televised debates have been often numbing, they have allowed voters to get to know the candidates, some of whom were utterly obscure before. Unblinking news channels like CNN and C-SPAN have relentlessly tracked the field...
...many first-rate mystery novelists as any other metropolis, and none have been better at evoking the landscape, the light, the architecture and the ethnic diversity than Joseph Hansen. The ninth and most affecting of his series featuring Dave Brandstetter, a homosexual insurance- claims investigator, returns the private eye to the byways of the gay subculture, particularly among more secretive and closeted denizens. Early Graves (Mysterious Press; 184 pages; $15.95) is not the first novel to deal with the impact of AIDS and will surely not be the last, but it will probably rank with the best. It begins with...
Loren D. Estleman's misfortune in life can be summed up in one name: Elmore Leonard. Were it not for his fellow Detroiter's surge to fame and best sellerdom, Estleman would doubtless be known as the poet of Motor City. An award winner both for private-eye fiction and for westerns, Estleman is, fittingly, never better than when describing a road and vehicles in combat on it. He is almost as good at evoking places, whether a sterile office complex, a blind-pig saloon in a ghetto, a shack in a Michigan version of Dogpatch or a patio...