Word: informant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...found for his memories and fantasies. If this synagogue scene has never made it into one of the director-producer's movies, still the mood and metaphor it represents -- of fear escalating into wonder, of the ordinary made extraordinary, of the journey from darkness into light -- inform just about every frame Spielberg has committed to film...
...statement about his father's fate stirred worldwide interest. It also revealed the eccentric ways of the secrecy-loving clan. As reporters gathered outside the office of Munich Architect Jens Hackenjos, young Mengele's stepbrother, Hackenjos sent his wife Sabine, accompanied by Herbert Bauermeister, a free-lance journalist, to inform newspeople that her husband had already handed over Rolf's statement to German wire-service agencies. At his own apartment Hackenjos opened his door just a crack, checked identifications, prohibited photographs and demanded that the handful of journalists he admitted give him receipts for copies of the statement...
JOURNALISTS SHOULD NEVER abdicate their responsibility to inform the public. But when their coverage of events becomes an inseparable part of those events, they must apply a different set of standards. They must separate the public's need to know from its desire to know. They must not blindly seek to satisfy their viewers' wishes, and they must not be blinded by prestige or profit...
...done it in a way which masterfully brings together two awkwardly coexistent branches of the historical novel tradition. Combining the solid factual background of authors like Tuchman or even Michener with the torrid, and sometime, sordid, human details of John Jakes and Harold Robbins. Hersey manages both to inform and to entertain throughout almost 700 pages. And he weaves his complex mosaic around one central, compelling theme--the hidden disaster embedded in the "offer" by the West, and "acceptance" by China, of the "forbidden fruits" of modern arts, science, and Christianity...
...rights campaigner was searched and handcuffed, then released after being held for less than an hour by Washington police. Like the more than 1,800 other protesters arrested at the embassy, she will not be prosecuted. Now a high school student in Atlanta, Amy had called home beforehand to inform her mother of her plans but not to seek parental consent. Human rights, after all, begin at home...