Word: kitman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that they were giving pitifully short shrift to the country's most important cultural phenomenon. No-nonsense reporters and respected critics were assigned the beat, and sharp, analytical commentary soon came to the TV page. Critics like Tom Shales, 33, of the Washington Post, and Marvin Kitman, 49, of Newsday, are masters of the lampoon. The new breed can also level their targets with sheer ferocity. One recent example from the Boston Globe's William A. Henry III: "RKO General has run Channel 7 with such greed, arrogance and contempt for the people of Boston that...
...ending June 1783, Comprehending a Space of 8 Years." It was published in 1833 by the Chief Clerk in the Register's Office of the Treasury Department. Eight years later it reappeared under different auspices with the title "A Monument to Washington's Patriotism." Coauthor Kitman came across this historical curiosity at the New York Public Library while he was researching a proposed epic entitled The Making of the Prefident...
Modern Techniques. Kitman is the kind of rabid comic who would buy a 1911 Chinese railway bond and then try to call up Chairman Mao to find out how the investment has been doing lately. He decided to look behind the sober smoke screen of Washington's meticulously kept accounts. In a fiendish demonstration of the power of scholarship, he proves, almost convincingly, that the father of his country was also the founder of modern expense-account living...
Elsewhere, according to Kitman, Washington demonstrated his mastery of modern expense-account techniques...
...included everything down to the last hurtleberry, mingled personal and business expenses, often picked up the checks for expenditures by close associates and occasionally even by his servants. Above all, he knew how to be specific about small items and convincingly vague about the big ones. Or, as Kitman puts it, how to "describe in some depth the purchase of a ball of twine but casually throw in the line, 'Dinner for one army...