Word: journalistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blond, bland Waspy square (he's pre-med), is perhaps a tad too deep into his role, appealing without being truly interesting. Brad Davis (the sweet victim of Midnight Express) proves here that he is really an actor. Playing a hustler carving out a career as a New Journalist, he is as active as he was passive in the ear lier film. One begins to think he overdoes the part, but it may be that he was asked to force his performance by Director Cohen in order to provide the film with energy and cutes...
...Washington, D.C., a young British journalist had come to the United States to work as a Congressional Fellow in Ted Kennedy's office, to watch the American system of checks and balances "at work." Today, William Shawcross says, he found Watergate "marvelously interesting. It was impossible not to be interested in," he says in a quiet, rational voice...
...stint as a copyboy at the Times lasted 12 weeks. A budding journalist's dream, you say? Heaven for the collegiate reporter? Let me take you into the newsroom on the third floor, show you my stomping grounds and the various roles I played there...
Often, I'd replace Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal's secretaries while they went to lunch. Rosenthal, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the man with more power at the Times than anyone except for Publisher "Punch" Sulzberger, was usually out to lunch as well, but when he wasn't I would always look as if all I was doing was watching the lights on his phone. I hoped he'd never catch me reading my copy of The Kingdom and the Power, Gay Talese's "history" of the Times, which contained some less than favorable stories about some...
...began the winter sports season a hardened journalist, immune to feelings of affection for a team and totally impartial. Yet somehow, along the way, I fell in love with the Harvard hockey team...