Word: journalistically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recover rationality after being irrational, to recover a normal life, is a great thing," declared John Nash, who awoke from a quarter-century of schizophrenic debilitation to accept the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics. Nash's life, set forth in the new biography, A Beautiful Mind, by journalist Sylvia Nasar, is a miracle of resurrection. Mindful of that fragile journey, Nash pondered, "But maybe it's not such a great thing. Suppose you have an artist. He's rational. But suppose he cannot paint. He can function normally. Is it really a cure? Is it really salvation?" Consider the tragedy...
...like cloying affectation masquerading as insight, then you will enjoy the much hyped Bridget Jones's Diary. The alter ego of London journalist Helen Fielding, Bridget is a bundle of frail funk, preoccupied by short skirts, long nails and yo-yo dieting. She has mother issues, toxic-married-men issues, smoking issues and VCR-programming issues. She affects irony, so you know she is deadly serious about her postfeminist problems--find a gym, find a guy, find a low-cal chocolate. If only she would find a life. And a brain...
...exists in the head and the heart as well as the body," rather than finding herself utterly alone in her 50s, her sexuality fading, a silhouette in danger of becoming a "character." She didn't want to end up unhappy like her overwhelmed mother: married to a charming, philandering journalist who "didn't even take the cigarette out of his mouth" to bestow a kiss, who forgot the name of the youngest of his nine children, who "dumbly refused the ordinary effort of being a father." So she ended up unhappy in a different way, having to look away when...
Nearing the completion of his fifth book Big Trouble, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author J. Anthony Lukas '55 committed suicide in his Manhattan apartment June...
After clerking for a judge in San Francisco, Kaus returned to the East, living with Harvard friend and fellow journalist Nicholas B. Lemann '76, also a Crimson editor, in Washington, D.C. When Lemon left his post at the Washington Monthly magazine, Kaus applied...