Word: penned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deserted stage at the other end of the room, an aloof Catherine Mackin was writing out her report for NBC with a green felt-tipped pen, before dusting her nose, brushing her hair, and readying for the call from David Brinkley...
...less. Moral indignation, that main current of contemporary American thought, seems nonexistent. Yet Vidal's travelogue through this dark time is as funny as it is unsettling. With malicious wit, irresistible gossip and sturdy research, he turns 1876 into an ornate 200th birthday card inscribed with a poison pen...
That was hardly enough to maintain the Vidal style, much less Edgewater, which he had bought in 1950. Searching for a way to support himself with his pen, Vidal decided to try writing for television. The Iron Pyrites age had arrived and with it came a voracious demand for new material. Vidal rapidly mastered the demands of the teleplay form and ultimately commanded fees as high as $5,000 for a one-hour script...
Gerald Ford did not go by the code name "Snowbunny" on the ski slopes at Vail last Christmas, but he did one day on the pen-and-ink slopes of Doonesbury. That comic-strip episode now hangs on the wall of Ford's private study, just off the Oval Office. Down the hall, Ron Nessen keeps three more Doonesburys, all poking gentle fun at the press secretary. Downstairs, in the office of White House Photographer David Kennerly, who covered the Viet Nam War for U.P.I, and TIME, there is a set of Doonesbury panels depicting a homesick Viet Cong...
...most readers, to be tired of Doonesbury is to be tired of life. Throughout American history, the best comic artists have reminded their followers that politics and chaos are separated by a fine line. For the foreseeable future, when that line is drawn, Garry Trudeau will be holding the pen...