Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sanguinetti, a lawyer, journalist and former Cabinet minister, settled an argument in 1970 with a fellow Colorado Party member by drawing first blood in a saber duel (legal in Uruguay under a 1920 law). He vowed last week as President to take a more conciliatory approach to Uruguay's problems. Said he: "Nobody has a mathematical method to prevent a new coup. The only way is to act maturely...
...reduced to the thousands it prints; hours of tape must be fitted to the time constraint of a half-hour news program. The bias, if there is one, is less apt to be in ideology than in choosing what will most interest the audience or document the thesis the journalist has found in the material...
...this they have succeeded wonderfully. See Eddie pretend he is a very important journalist, terrorizing a snooty hotel into giving him a room despite his lack of a reservation. See him, a moment later, impersonate a delivery boy soft-shoeing his way past a wary receptionist. And watch closely, for in the wink of a camera's eye he is going to be a furious Customs inspector whose bite is worse than his bark. Or a homosexual lisping his way past a posh club's maître d' with a particularly mad invention. Murphy exudes...
Nearly every journalist believes he has a novel in him. But if he manages to produce the work, it often bears a disquieting resemblance to journalism. Nicholas von Hoffman's first novel, Organized Crimes, is a happy exception. This is no self-absorbed memoir of How I Broke the Big Story or of backstairs city-room intrigues; indeed, its only journalist of consequence is in the pay of mobsters and is introduced to the narrative at the moment he is shot dead...
...credible and, even in the comic passages, are never overdrawn. But the author is more than an adroit tale spinner; it is character, not accident or circumstance, that brings his central figures to grief. In the process, he merges Chicago myth, legend and history with poignant private truth. This journalist, at least, had not only a novel but a genuine novelist...