Word: journalistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...journalist, getting the story or pictures out of a war-torn nation can be as perilous as covering the war. So it was last week for Photographer Harry Mattison, on assignment for TIME in Lebanon. The Beirut airport was closed, making it impossible to ship film by air. All roads leading north, south and east were closed because of fighting. Finally the frustrated Mattison decided to walk some ten miles to the Israeli lines with the week's work of six photographers. Mattison is no stranger to the hazards of war: he covered vicious combat in El Salvador...
...elite. This array of artists and nobles have gathered for the scattering of the ashes of a renowned opera star named Edmea Tetua whom they all knew at some point in their lives. The only person present who had no connection with the prima donna is the comical journalist, Orlando (Freddie Jones). Supposedly broadcasting the voyage for a newsreel, Orlando serves as the film's narrator...
WHILE THE FILM BIDS farewell to a fading epoch, it also offers a glimpse of what lies ahead. The snooping newsreel journalist heralds the advent of the mass media, a trademark of the age. In one of the movie's most intriguing scenes, upon request, passengers perform arias for a troop of sweaty, soot-besodden stokers in the ship's bow, auguring the workingman's increasing visibility. And, of course, there...
...magazine prospered, and gossip about its inner workings leaked out, White became the country's best-known anonymous journalist. His casual, pithy approach to a paragraph defined brevity and wit for a generation of aspiring stylists. He was so good at what he did that he grew bored with...
SENTENCED. Jodie Foster, 21, screen actress (Taxi Driver, The Hotel New Hampshire), quondam journalist (Esquire, Interview), Presidential Assailant John Hinckley's love object, and Yale senior; to one year on probation and a fine of $500 in court costs after pleading guilty to possession of a small amount of cocaine found during a Customs check at Logan Airport last December; in Boston...