Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case against his breast: "It is a good thing God does not grant taxi drivers' wishes." The shortage of fuel has made life uncomfortable for Tehran's 7 million people, but in the fervor of the war between "Islam and paganism," there are few complaints. An Iranian journalist sent the following report to TIME...
Others on the left would prefer Michael Foot, 67, a fidgety, white-maned journalist who was first elected to Parliament in 1945. Foot, a brilliant parliamentary debater, is personally popular and thus might be acceptable as a caretaker until Labor's electoral college can get organized. Another declared candidate is a long shot, former Agriculture Minister John Silkin, 57, who is also on the left...
...Saturation Reporting," as Wolfe called it, was the crucial innovation. If the writer could move inside (and sometimes in with) his subject so that the two of them felt absolutely natural together, only then could the journalist begin to unearth the story. The Literary Gentleman With A Seat in the Grandstand gave way to George Plimpton playing football with the Detroit Lions. Novelists fumed. But some signed up, people like Gore Vidal, William Styron and especially Norman Mailer and Truman Capote, who began to use journalistic techniques in their writing...
...dislodge Iranian urban guerrilla units, which had destroyed a large number of Baghdad's tanks with Molotov cocktails. However, Iraqi commando units then succeeded in capturing most of the port area and in repelling a series of savage counterattacks by Iranian regulars and militiamen. Reported an Iranian journalist who witnessed one of the battles: "The carnage was unbelievable. The plains around the city were strewn with corpses." By Saturday the Iraqis claimed that their infantry had crossed the Karun River and thus established a new beachhead beyond Khorramshahr...
...America, there is an energy crisis," Jack Cole, a Boston journalist, lawyer and Anderson supporter, said last night, leading off the fourth of five tapings of the PBS T.V. series "The Advocates" at the Institute of Politics...