Word: perform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those television-network correspondents who cover the White House are able and competitive men. But with one foot in show business and the other in journalism, they must perform a difficult straddle. The question in Washington is whether they are becoming more like rock stars than reporters -- the Mick Jaggers of journalism, so highly paid, so powerful and self-important that they feel no personal constraints. Indeed, it sometimes seems that the more bizarre their behavior, the greater their fame and audience...
Plante, Wallace, Donaldson & Co. are rightly proud of their dogged surveillance of the most powerful man on earth. But the bright lights of power sooner or later blind almost everyone who bathes in them. Journalists were originally created to enlighten, not to threaten; to inform, not to perform; to know, not to show...
Still, not all customers are satisfied. "Some people think they want a decorator," says Noonan, "but when you suggest something, they say, 'Oh, I can't do that!' What they really want is a coordinator." Instead of making proposals, a coordinator implements the client's own ideas. Some decorators perform that service too, right down to the thank-you gift of a pair of , earrings, color coordinated to go with milady's new decor...
...done for. Further study is immediately precluded by the urge to put my book down and perform a jig or a polka. I raise my fist and scream, "Yes, Baby! That is the Coolest! You are the Best!" It is now only a matter of moments before my body is compelled by an invisible force to pigeon its head forward and back while walking like King Tut around my desk...
Right now Williams has his eye on Ronald Reagan's Acer saccharum, a lush 25-ft. sugar maple that sits right out by the northwest drive so all the visitors can see it when it blazes red and yellow in the fall. Naturally it will perform on schedule. It was planted by an actor...