Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the conservative backlash, though, recent intellectual purges have been relatively mild when compared with past excesses. Liu Binyan, a leading journalist who was stripped of Communist Party membership in January for questioning its authority, remains a vice-chairman of the Chinese Writers' Association. Liu has further confounded the hard-liners by retaining his post as a reporter for the People's Daily, the official Communist Party paper. Astrophysicist Fang Lizhi, dismissed as a university vice president in January, was promptly reassigned to a research job. Such moves have helped reassure China watchers that there is no second Cultural Revolution...
...campaigning for black civil rights and social progress. When Pauline discovers Hillela in bed with her son Sasha, the welcome at the last possible adoptive home wears out. Before long, Hillela quits school and is on her own, drifting somewhere in Johannesburg. Eventually she takes up with an antigovernment journalist and then, during the summer of 1963, flees the country with him after the cottage they share has been ransacked by police. She is some months shy of her 20th birthday...
...official. Now, says another, the U.S. realizes that throughout Reykjavik, "we played poker with the Soviets, and they were looking at a mirror over our shoulders." Government sources are equally convinced that the Soviets had inside information last August during the crisis surrounding the Kremlin's arrest of U.S. Journalist Nicholas Daniloff...
What makes a medical journalist whose last book was Women and the Crisis in Sex Hormones (1977) spend six years writing a biography of Jacqueline Susann, author of the definitive '60s trash trinity, Valley of the Dolls, The Love Machine and Once Is Not Enough? Perhaps it was Susann's unique amalgam of poignancy and chutzpah. Her pores were too big to pass a screen test, she could not sing or dance, she was too short to be a model and, after 25 years of trying, she was nowhere as an actress. She drank heavily and was addicted to pills...
Dusa (Mira Sorvino) is a mod mom who eulogizes the virtues of motherhood. By playing Dusa with false sincerity, Sorvino does not make her a credible character. The fourth woman, Fish (Heather Gunn), is a journalist-activist-feminist and the most ideologically optimistic woman of the bunch--often hopeful to the point of idiocy. Gunn's overstudied performance does little to help us sympathize with...