Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...magnate Harry Brock, who is eight parts tyrant to one part teddy bear. Madeline Kahn (Oh Madeline) gets laughs as his fed-up mistress who sets out to acquire couth and literacy, but cute faces and cunning timing do not add up to a believable person. As the crusading journalist who sets out to trap Brock and woo away his woman, Daniel Hugh Kelly (Hardcastle and McCormick) seems lobotomized. Only Franklin Cover (The Jeffersons), as a sozzled, shopworn and sardonic Washington fixer, evokes a credible human being...
...sabbatical), MacDougall, 57, says that only the security of tenure finally enabled him to reveal himself as a "closet socialist boring unobtrusively from within ((the)) bourgeois press." His epitaph: "Eugene V. Debs may be my all-time favorite American and Karl Marx my all-time favorite journalist. But my employer for a decade was the Wall Street Journal...
...What intrigued me was not just covering the process," said former communications director for the Republican National Committee Kathryn Murray, "but being involved in the process, and to be able to affect it." Murray, who began her career as a political journalist, told the audience she decided early on that she could better contribute to the public by becoming an insider in political campaigns...
...wasn't the first time a member of the Bush family had turned the tables on a journalist, but senior writer Margaret Carlson was nonetheless a bit startled when Barbara Bush opened the interview by quizzing Carlson about the inner workings of TIME. "She was genuinely curious about the magazine," reports Carlson, who visited Mrs. Bush while she was still packing boxes at the vice-presidential mansion on Embassy...
...years ago, journalist John Fraser and photographer Eve Arnold undertook to cover a season (1986-87) with the American Ballet Theatre: the rehearsals, the tour, the filming of the Herbert Ross movie Dancers in Italy. Their achievement is that they manage to animate the dailiness of backstage life from the point of view of both the artistic management, led by Mikhail Baryshnikov, and the dancers. Fraser's prose may be gushy at times, and Arnold's photos are grainy, but both beat with life and explode with candor. The arias of shop talk, the revelation of fears and jealousies...