Word: gail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once ignited, a sense of optimism (like pessimism) can be self-fulfilling: the U.S. has cheered up partly because enough Americans willed such a change. It is the power of positive thinking writ large. "Magic takes over from reason at such times," wrote Author Gail Sheehy last month in a paean to the new mood. Christopher Reed, writing more acidly about the Olympics for Britain's weekly Spectator, found Americans "feeling proud about their pride." Is the bonhomie real, or is the country engaged in massive autosuggestion? When it comes to a subject as ineffable as the mood...
...Gail Funaro Cerritos, Calif...
...been increasingly criticized. New Journalists may merge characters or invent scenes. They sometimes reconstruct sequences based on interviews with third parties rather than participants, and even claim to know what people were thinking. Clay Felker, when he was running New York magazine, edited out Gail Sheehy's explanation in an article that a prostitute, Red-pants, was a composite because, he says, "I thought it slowed the story down." He regrets having misled readers. Reviewers challenged the reconstructed dialogue in David McClintick's 1982 Hollywood exposé Indecent Exposure, and Don Kowet's A Matter of Honor...
Draper Labs, which received about $125 million in DOD contracts in 1982, "is diversifying now--we're not 100 percent military," said company spokesperson Gail Caruso...
...Richard Stengel. Reported ááby Matt Pritchard/Ciudad Juárez and Gail Seekamp/Mexico City