Word: journalistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...political kidnappings orchestrated by Escobar. The writer?s respondents are mainly the survivors of a group of prominent residents of Bogot? whom the drug lord held hostage during 1990 and 1991. Most of the hostages were women, including Diana Turbay Quintero, daughter of a former Colombian President. A TV journalist, she imprudently walked into an Escobar trap, taking a film crew with her. By now the world is well acquainted with hostage holding as a grotesque basis for personal relationships. But here the unusual experience of living in close quarters with your potential killers is intensified in prose as precise...
...ASCENT OF CLARE BOOTHE LUCE: She may be only one of history?s footnotes now, but in her heyday Clare Boothe Luce was, after Eleanor Roosevelt, the most talked-about woman in America. TIME Critic John Elson writes that Boothe seemingly had it all: she was a headlining journalist (for Life and the original Vanity Fair); a successful playwright (?The Women?); a two-term Congresswoman from Connecticut; and later U.S. ambassador to Italy. She had a merciless wit and stunning looks to go with her smarts. Drawing on interviews with family, friends and Luce herself, as well as her papers...
Just, a Washington journalist in the early '60s, writes from experience. But there is no master clef to this roman. Axel reads like a composite rather than a copy. He has spent more than half his years in chronic pain caused by wounds suffered during World War II. His marriage to Sylvia, a wellborn New Yorker and poet, was a mismatch. "Government's the opiate of the patrician masses," she tells him shortly before walking out. Her parting shot is that Axel, former oss operative and friend of Presidents, has "too many secrets, not enough mystery...
What she has on her side is a top-notch co-author, Teresa Carpenter, who is a Pulitzer-prizewinning journalist and the author of the riveting true-crime tale Missing Beauty. So while Without a Doubt has little to offer for the history books, it is well written, sometimes moving and occasionally amusing. At one point, Judge Lance Ito is compared with Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now: "increasingly cryptic and vain." And the anecdotes about fellow prosecutor Christopher Darden reveal a sweet rapport and a complex relationship. (As for the $64,000 question, Clark writes, tough-guy style, "The question...
...flaws of the human miracle are the diseases that attack these systems. As Nuland sees it, the surgeon's role is to assist the body in mounting a concerted defense against the intruders, be they cancerous cells or traumatic injuries. Nuland generally writes with a clarity that any journalist can envy. Still, the eyelids of the scientifically challenged may droop a bit amid the book's vital but unlyrical nuts-and-bolts background passages. For example, one sentence on cell division begins, "Meiosis is somewhat more complicated because its purpose is to result in a spermatogonium or oogonium with half...