Word: pizazz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plus a slight Hungarian accent and blond wig make her look and sound a bit like Zsa-Zsa Gabor. Staid rabbis are sometimes scandalized by her delivery, which ranges from a concerned whine to a dramatic whisper. But lay listeners are held spellbound by her blend of polemics and pizazz. Sometimes they weep openly as she speaks about the possible fate of Israel or the loss of Jewish youths through intermarriage with non-Jews. "This generation suffers from Jewish amnesia," she says...
...have to do our bit to keep up the great traditions of Western literature," he says. "I learned to read from comic books and I can see that the more distinguished students at Quincy House did too. It shows; they're got the right"--he searches for the word--"pizazz...
Journalists generally rank the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times as the three best papers in the country. The Post's particular distinction is its pizazz. This is largely the doing of its celebrated executive editor, Ben Bradlee, aggressive, abrasive, amusing -the very model of Jason Robards in All the President's Men. With Watergate to his credit, he glories in playing what he describes as journalistic "hardball." He is a Harvardman who talks constantly in street profanity...
...four others, including one by Sally Quinn (Mrs. Ben Bradlee), who only a little more than a year ago wrote a story so full of inaccurate sexual innuendoes about National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski that the Post had to apologize in print. Such are the rewards and risks of pizazz...
Certain aspects of the scandal are unique to the Washington Post, including its emphasis on pizazz. But, as Jane Perlez, media critic of the New York Daily News, wrote, "other fabrications, on a less spectacular scale, go by every day in news stories. Every day, reporters 'embellish' quotes from an individual to make them 'sound better' or to fit the point of the story." Some editors concede that the press generally overuses unidentified sources. Cooke has made them more aware that a paper's reputation can be just as much at stake as the reporter...