Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Clare the journalist, rising to the top of the masthead at Vanity Fair from...
Charles Herman was a Harvard-educated journalist, writing for The Nation and public TV. In 1972 he and his wife arrived in Chile, and, 15 months later, during the bloody coup that deposed Salvador Allende, he disappeared. In outline, Charles looks like a modern, minor John Reed. But Missing is not his story. Instead, it tracks the attempts of Charles' wife (Sissy Spacek) and father (Jack Lemmon) to discover whether the young man is indeed missing or dead-killed by the junta for crimes unknown...
...London and New York, in newspapers and TV until the reader's attention flaggeth and verily his eyelids drop. Happily, Malcolm Muggeridge does not maintain a testamental tone throughout his selected diaries from 1932 to 1962. Despite the sackcloth prose, Muggeridge made his reputation as a restless journalist, BBC wit, and the scapegrace editor of Punch. When he is not ostentatiously wishing for death or lamenting his carnal desires for this or that mistress, he remains a world-class caricaturist...
Rarely is a practicing journalist acquainted with all of the principals in a celebrated murder case, including the deceased. This unlikely coincidence fell into the lap of Author Anthony Haden-Guest in August 1978, when New York police arrested Howard ("Buddy") Jacobson, a successful horse trainer and all-purpose entrepreneur, for the murder of a man named Jack Tupper. The writer knew and had once interviewed Jacobson and his girlfriend and business partner, Melanie Cain, a fashion model. The victim had often been encountered, by Haden-Guest and others, in trendy restaurants and bars on Manhattan's East Side...
...Journalist Rakowski wanted to do more than talk and write about his country; he wanted to be in on the action. His opportunity came last February, when Jaruzelski appointed him to negotiate with Solidarity. It was then, ironically, that Rakowski's reputation as a liberal began to fade. Perhaps naively, he thought Solidarity could be fashioned into a benign check on the government, but without power of its own. Rakowski became increasingly impatient with Solidarity's demands, and at one point last summer publicly accused the union of "unprecedented arrogance...