Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tone of Shoot Out the Lights is distinctly secular and its power very much of the immediate present. With a vengeance. "I am not pessimistic, I am not obsessed by death, I don't believe in fatalism," Thompson insists. "I am an outside observer, like a journalist." Nevertheless, these observations seem drawn from inside himself. The album's title cut, for example, is a bone-chilling evocation of metropolitan madness, a song full of abrupt violence and long shadows of empty city streets. It's Just the Motion is about drowning, literally and figuratively, slipping off from...
This richly documented chronicle of Churchill's first four decades by the versatile biographer and journalist (Maugham; Rowing Toward Eden) catches Churchill on all fours. Here, the world statesman is still a vote-grabbing politician, and the supreme war strategist a romantic blunderer. The omnipresent cigar, the V sign and the stentorian voice on the wireless are a World War away...
...glowworm rode straight into controversy. He covered the Cuban revolution in 1895 as a journalist, fought at the Khyber Pass, and joined the last great cavalry charge in British history with Kitchener in the Sudan. Captured by Boers in South Africa, Winston was confined to a prison camp. His escape was neoclassic Churchill. He used a route fellow officers had worked out, but went alone. He had read his Nelson carefully. The admiral advised that victory depended on being there a quarter of an hour before the other fellows...
...accepted the resignation of CNN'S first president, Reese Schonfeld, who has spent an estimable career developing alternatives to network news. One cause of the dispute was Schonfeld's decison to fire Interviewer Sandi Freeman, CNN'S most popular performer, who, Schonfeld said, was not a journalist. As soon as Schonfeld resigned, Turner started negotiating to get Freeman back. Turner kept Schonfeld on as a consultant and corporate board member, however, and as replacements he named a committee of key Schonfeld aides: Ed Turner (no relation), Burt Reinhardt and Robert Wussler, a tough-minded former president...
TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis is the first Western print journalist who has visited the front since the Iranian invasion of Iraq two weeks ago. He traveled to the battle area on a blistering 125° day last week, soon after the Iraqi forces had repelled the first Iranian onslaught. His report...