Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Minutes last year that included talk about his presidential aspirations, CBS's Diane Sawyer reminded George Bush that Michael Kramer, one of the nation's savviest political journalists, had once suggested the Vice President was a wimp. Replied Bush, who rarely singles out reporters for attack: "You know Michael Kramer? He'll never play linebacker for the Chicago Bears. You ever seen him?" Kramer, 43, may never rush down Soldier Field, but last week he joined TIME's team as special correspondent. His first piece for the magazine, an analysis of the new Administration's coming conflicts with Congress, appears...
Five managers from his newspaper, the Daily Mirror, a working-class tabloid housed in the adjoining Mirror Group building, surround him at the table. Though they are accustomed to the constant interruptions, the lightning shifts in ideas, deals, languages, Maxwell knows they are growing impatient and holds them in check with his translucent amber eyes, which he uses like headlights to paralyze his prey. Punching a button on the console, Maxwell purrs, "You are up, good. It is 5 a.m. Find out how much they want for the National Enquirer." The citizens of Maxwell's empire know no time zones...
...film's writers, Saturday Night Live veterans Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue, know that all a TV skit needs is a likable star and some lunatic vamping. Because of the Dickens frame, this formula works at feature length, even if Richard Donner's close-up and impersonal direction clangs like the chains on Marley's ghost. And because, 4 1/2 years after his last star turn in a movie comedy (Ghostbusters), Murray remains a roguish delight to watch. As sham friendly as the guy who cheated off you in high school, as ersatz hip as a Vegas lounge singer...
...biggest challenge was overcoming bitterness. We don't believe in a politics of vindictiveness or persecution. History must know whether the end was the right...
...would produce some 20 times as much energy as the Tevatron can and would generate correspondingly more interesting particles. Among the discoveries are certain to be some surprises. Says Harvard physicist Roy Schwitters, who is a leading candidate to be the SSC's director, "I don't know what we're going to find, because we are the first ones to go there...