Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fitness, and having a President who is really into it too is great. His body is evidence enough he takes care of himself. We wouldn't have asked Johnson or Nixon." Did questions of propriety arise? The magazine originally wanted a more strictly personal account, without advice to fellow, flabbier Americans. "We thought that was too self-centered," says David Gergen, a Reagan aide...
Moreover, the time-honored image of the reporter-sketched in The Front Page as a low-paid but high-spirited regular fellow drinking beer with the police as the city edition is put to bed-has given way to a persona shaped by television: the anchorman or anchorwoman, cool, comely, and paid far more than the President...
...press has shifted from local newspapers to national networks, the public seemingly has added the news business to the list of remote institutions that it mistrusts simply because of their size. Says Chicago Tribune Editor James Squires: "The press used to be something accessible, owned by the fellow down the street. There is no access now. It is too big and far away." The growth of the press as a business has led to consolidation, so that most cities now have one pre-eminent newspaper, often owned by a large chain. In many cases this has given papers the resources...
Small invertebrate segmented animals, say the dictionaries. The Audubon Society Book of Insects (Abrams; 283 pages; $50) offers a more generous definition of the six-legged creatures: "Fellow inhabitants of our fragile planet earth." But what fellows! Bombardiers and borers, water sprites, builders and architects, singers and aviators all fly, hop and crawl through the pages of this extraordinary zoo without screens. A commonplace grasshopper on a black-eyed Susan takes on the dazzle of a Van Gogh landscape; a mangrove glows like a Christmas tree as thousands of fireflies illuminate its heavy branches. The text, by Naturalists Lorus...
This year a Nieman fellow at Harvard, the Newsday reporter adds that "a disturbing number of athletes fail to prepare for careers away from the field," concluding that "salaries aside, professional Black athletes with incomplete educations suffer the same problems as Blacks in America...