Word: journaliste
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...noisy housewreckers. His own marriage effectively ended with a separation five years ago; his frequent companion, as British newspapers phrase it, is Claire Tomalin, literary editor of the London Sunday Times. Frayn says he remains close to his daughters, one a novice BBC staffer, another a would-be journalist, the third applying to universities. He admits that his sour descriptions of beleaguered parenthood and the "squalor of middle-class domestic life" derive from memory. But he adds, in a line echoing the sensibility of Benefactors and his other work so aptly that it might be his literary credo, "One always...
...suspended recognition, and a response to too much useless and complicated factuality." Not a good state for a sportswriter. But as a fictional character dealing with loss and solitude, Bascombe accounts for many affecting moments. His attempt to interview a former football player confined to a wheelchair is every journalist's nightmare: a hostile subject who undermines the project. The breakup with Nurse Vicki reveals that chilling instant when involved parties realize they have little in common. The sad truth about one's limits of interest and sympathy unfolds when a man Bascombe hardly knows insists on confessing his homosexual...
...Brelis, reporting Horowitz's triumphant and poignant return to Moscow capped 20 hours of interviews and conversation with the virtuoso and his wife Wanda. It was by far the longest stretch of time Horowitz has ever agreed to spend with a journalist. "I usually cover wars, politics and disasters," says Brelis, "so this was a very different kind of assignment. Horowitz was pleased that I was not a musician. 'We can discuss politics,' he said. And we did. He has a remarkable, nimble mind. The hours with him and Wanda were like reliving not only the history of music...
...Gaddafi seemed keen to show off their thirst for vengeance. An extremist group called the Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims sent a four-minute videotape to the Beirut daily AnNahar showing a blindfolded man dangling from a scaffold. The victim appeared to be Alex Collett, 64, a British journalist who had been kidnaped 13 months ago. A statement accompanying the tape claimed that Collett had been executed in answer to the American air attack, as had three hostages who were found shot in Beirut a week earlier...
...G.O.P. hopes that this year's elections will cut into the majority party's 34-16 predominance in state capitals. Former Journalist Bernard Kalb quits his post as State Department spokesman over the Administration's reported "disinformation" scheme. Followers of Right-Wing Extremist Lyndon LaRouche are indicted for credit-card scams in a "fund-raising" campaign...