Word: journalistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American (Anthony Heald) has failed to sort out the conflicting impulses of his roles as observer, returning revolutionary, reunited friend and working journalist. His former cellmate (Joe Urla) pecks away at poetry but works primarily for a malign, fanatical government minister. In rich and subtle performances, the opponents lacerate each other with unwelcome truths as they strive to rekindle affection. Then, in a finely calibrated and powerful final scene that shifts back to 1970, at what the two believed would be the hour of their death, Nelson makes their antagonism all the sadder. As they quake, bound and blindfolded...
More than a century after Charles Dickens' pageant of nameless benefactors, twists of narrative, and startling revelations, Journalist David Leitch, 45, appears with a document that ratifies the conventions of the Victorian novel. In the first volume of his autobiography, God Stand Up for Bastards (1973), Leitch recalled his adoptive parents and the mysterious couple who secretly and illegally relinquished their nine-day-old infant. "This title might seem like a calculated insult to my mother," he began. "In a way it is. But I have a sneaking hunch--and hope--that hard words may entice...
...American businessmen too rational and restrained for their own good? In a world where the M.B.A. is a major status symbol, executives are deluged with exhortations to plan ever more precisely, to analyze ever more rigorously. Veteran Business Journalist Roy Rowan, however, has some refreshingly different advice. In The Intuitive Manager (Little, Brown; $15.95), Rowan, a longtime correspondent for LIFE and TIME and for the past eight years a FORTUNE editor, celebrates what he calls the Eureka factor, the sudden, illuminating flash of judgment that actually guides many business leaders...
...parliament and ex- editor in chief of the Observer of London, now suggests that a solution to Middle East anguish may not even be possible. That so bleak a view is the basis for so enlightening a book can be attributed to the author's capabilities as a historian, journalist and political analyst, not to mention storyteller...
...weekly, Gorbachev complained that the Geneva summit "half opened the door to hope, but this ray of light so frightened the people associated with the U.S. military-industrial complex that they threw their weight against the door to slam it shut." As one Soviet official exploded to an American journalist, "Your side is taking us for gullible fools...