Word: gleick
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...Elizabeth Gleick...
...that got him elected and suggests ways in which he, or whoever captures the "values" debate, can win the presidency in '96. "Wattenberg is at his most impressive when dealing with the specifics of the disjunction between what Clinton promised and how he has governed," says TIME's Elizabeth Gleick. "These rare sharp moments, however, are surrounded by more stuffing than a Thanksgiving turkey. Wattenberg fills 400 windy and repetitive pages with folksy statements ('Is there hope for American kids? You bet there is') and self-important quotations from his own previous work." The result, Gleick says, is "a book...
...Gleick joined a short-lived magazine, New York Woman. She relished writing and editing stories, but she was conscious of working in a one-sex world. When the magazine folded, one of the things she liked about moving to PEOPLE was the chance to ``work with men and write about them.'' While there she wrote about such men as Jesse Jackson, Michael Jackson and various Kennedys, as well as about crime and earthquakes...
...came to TIME looking for a new challenge, and a major one awaited her: the story of O.J. Simpson's murder trial. Last month Gleick wrote the cover story on the opening of the trial, and we shall doubtless hear more from her on that subject. Says senior editor Howard Chua-Eoan, who has worked with her both at PEOPLE and TIME: ``She has a particular talent for delineating character, for sifting through reporting for the detail that is just right. She would always display the most poignant evidence of a subject's heart--or lack...
Marriage is a subject that Gleick, who is single, was happy to explore. She and her friends ponder it frequently. ``Personally, I am sometimes amazed that people can make it work, but as a society we are re-examining it at many levels. There is an urgency about saving children, although I don't think that need necessarily involve marriage--families can take different forms.'' Enlightened views, but Gleick also has good reason to value the family's most traditional form: to date her parents' marriage has spanned 42 years...