Word: newsweeks
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Both in person and in the pages he produced each week, Newsweek editor MAYNARD PARKER had an edgy energy that was rooted in a passion for the news. Often tightly coiled and always ready to spring, he had the gleeful ability to rip up his magazine as it was going to press in order to make it more exciting. Every Monday I felt the special kinship that comes from having tried to pull off the same feats; I could admire the smart way he had packaged a cover, spotted a trend or elicited a nugget of reporting...
...legendary intensity made him not merely a survivor but a person who prevailed in the struggle to keep journalism smart and relevant. I hope, and I suspect, that he would consider it a compliment and an accomplishment that he made all of us--not only his colleagues at Newsweek but his competitors at TIME and elsewhere--better at what...
...study investigating negative perceptions of gays and lesbians reported in two widely-read news magazines--Time and Newsweek--since the 1940s was recently released by Lisa Bennett, a former Shorenstein fellow at the Kennedy School of Government...
...real life. Hearts were broken. George did join the Administration, left after one term to become a pundit, and now feels betrayed. He said so in Newsweek last week. Former White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers said something similar in TIME. But what exactly is the nature of these betrayals? They surely didn't believe, until Aug. 16, that Monica Lewinsky was making it all up. Stephanopoulos helped quash "bimbo eruptions" during the 1992 campaign, and both aides spun mightily for the President they now say can't be trusted...
...market is somewhat overstocked with confessional memoirs at the moment, but the younger Dickey, who is Paris bureau chief for Newsweek, writes with a fine complexity, acquired the hard way, by experience with a self-absorbed father, a mother who was herself alcoholic and a family drama that descended, from time to time, to the gothically dysfunctional. After Christopher's mother died of cancer at age 50, the widowed poet waited just two months before marrying a former student of his, almost 30 years his junior. In 1991 the local newspaper reported that she was caught injecting cocaine...