Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HISTORY OF THE JEWS by Paul Johnson. Everything anyone ever wanted to know about the Chosen People, brilliantly organized, interpreted and narrated by one of Britain's most distinguished journalist-scholars...
...journalist, Breslin gave Queens a picturesque notoriety long before All in the Family folksied up the place for national consumption. He Got Hungry pushes the Archie Bunker mentality over the edge of realism into absurdity. Howard Beach mobsters like the Chief and Frankie Five Hundred seem to be overdone holdovers from Breslin's The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1969). The kinks in New York's welfare bureaucracy are authentic and darkly humorous, but the black characters are not developed beyond their jive. Father D'Arcy's mission is unfocused, his misadventures a blur, and his conversion from guardian...
Actress Holly Hunter, a farm- girl sprite from Conyers, Ga., finds surprise movie stardom as a dynamic journalist in Broadcast News...
...think you're so free to become a journalist," says my father. "Is that what I paid your tuition for, so you could hang out in bushes peeping at a man having an affair?" he asked me when I worked a summer for The Miami Herald...
...answer I give is that I don't want so much to be a journalist in the bushes as a chronicler of two things--myself and my age. I can't do that of course if I am not skeptical. And that is exactly what Harvard does...