Word: journalist
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During the past several years, three judges, five police officers, a journalist specializing in Mafia investigations, and uncounted mobsters have been murdered as rival families have attempted to ward off investigations and settle territorial disputes. In 1982 General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, the prefect of Palermo and the man credited with striking the first serious blows at the Red Brigades, which had terrorized Italy for a decade, was gunned down with his young wife as he drove along one of the city's main streets. The assassination angered even those who had grudgingly tolerated the Mafia. It outraged...
WHENEVER BARBARA Walters lets a solemn tone creep into her voice, I expect to hear something like "How has stardom treated you, Farrah?" It's been so long since the Million Dollar Journalist covered anything real that I wasn't sure she remembered how. But when her big chance for revived "hard news" exposure finally came, in the first Presidential debate last week, she managed at the same time both to misstate an important issue and overstate the purity of American political news coverage...
...memory seem only to prolong the sense of contest. Sons of famous men find the scorekeeping particularly onerous: whatever the offspring's achievements, both generations are likely to suspect that the father's glory enhanced them. That psychic battleground is toured by Michael J. Arlen, 53, a journalist, memoirist and television critic of The New Yorker, yet seemingly fated to be known always as the son of the celebrated '20s novelist Michael Arlen (The Green Hat). Say Goodbye to Sam is told in the first person, and much of its detail is so close to Arlen...
That was 1960, when Kennedy was a journalist in San Juan and the future Nobel prizewinner was a visiting teacher at the University of Puerto Rico. The island was also where Kennedy met Dana Sosa, a gifted dancer-singer who forsook the stage to raise three children and help her husband buy time to write during the lean years...
...first novel, The Diary of a Good Neighbor, was not that it was poorly reviewed but that it was scarcely reviewed at all. The few critics who noticed the book liked it, but Somers, identified on the book jacket as the pseudonym of a "well-known English woman journalist," drew modest attention in Britain and the U.S. A sequel, If the Old Could . . ., published early this year, would probably have found its way to a remainder bin if the real author had not revealed herself last week. The literary world on both sides of the Atlantic was astonished to find...