Word: newsweek
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Time's chief rival in the national news-weeklygame, Newsweek, gave Harvard and its birthday acomparative pittance of coverage. A teaser at thetop of its cover asks, "Harvard at 350: Why theMystique?" Inside, playwright and author MarkO'Donnell '76, attempts in an idiosyncratic essayto answer that question, as only a former Lampoonpresident can. But the editors deemed a story on"TV's Fun Couple," Bruce Willis and CybillShepherd of "Moonlighting," more worthy of a coverstory...
...Jesus, I don't know why I'm so horny all of a sudden," Des says. "I guess nothing turns me on like a good story." To Washingtonians, the two sound suspiciously like Quinn and her husband Ben Bradlee, the executive editor of the Washington Post and a former Newsweek bureau chief. "Both Allison and Sadie are partly me," Quinn confesses. "Some of Des is Ben, some...
Funny, it doesn't matter whether she read Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, etc., because each one individually and collectively has contributed to her belief that I could experience, maybe not a year, but a summer of living dangerously...
Lerner lived flamboyantly, buying an eight-bath Manhattan town house, vacationing in a rented villa on the Riviera, moving to London in his final years, partygoing everywhere. He wed eight times, to women ranging from actresses in his shows to a Newsweek reporter who interviewed him, fathered three daughters and a son. His divorces were sometimes messy, and he blamed the settlements for his financial problems: at his death, the Internal Revenue Service was seeking $1.4 million in back taxes and penalties...
...addition to a CBS cameraman who had already left the country, two more journalists were expelled: Richard Manning, the Newsweek bureau chief in Johannesburg, and Dan Sagir, an Israeli who represented the newspaper Ha'aretz. From Amnesty International, the London-based human rights organization, came reports of three more raids on black churches and the detention of entire congregations. Amnesty International also reported that Zwelakhe Sisulu, a black South African editor and member of a prominent activist family, had been arrested...