Word: punditing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fail to laugh at a writer who discerns between the merely clever and the simply hilarious? A pundit who deploys verbs like "fumfering" and "obsessing," and adjectives like "guileness?" A knish of a man whose favorite characters are Tiffany and Eino Shmeederer and Sidney and Daphne Kuglemass? A clown who ridicules Plato and Kafka while laughin over the lascivious portions of Emma Bovary? Woody Allen, whose "one regret in life is that he is not someone else...
Speaking at Tufts University recently, Wallace seemed astounded at the controversy her book had engendered and uncomfortable in the pundit role the popular press had placed her in. "The book's purpose was to initiate discussion and investigation more than it was to tell anyone what to do with their life," she says...
Sadly, "Why Not The Best?" has not proved to be a rhetorical question over the last four years. But it would be too easy for a pundit to point cynically at Bert Lance as an example of "honesty", Billy Carter as "decent", Presidential Directive #59 as "open", the president's unwillingness to debate as "fair", the induced recession to combat inflation as "compassionate", and Carter's overall record as "competent...
Just before Jimmy Carter met last week with auto industry leaders, TIME Contributor John Skow received a phone call from his friend Featherless, the pundit who wants the Democrats to nominate Franklin Delano Roosevelt and argues that, given the rest of the field, no one will notice that he is dead. Featherless had an equally practical proposal for solving two economic problems-the nation...
...conference of European Communist parties designed to rally around Moscow's denunciation of NATO'S proposed new generation of nuclear missiles. Four major parties-the Yugoslav, Rumanian, Italian and Spanish -pointedly refused to attend, but Moscow appeared not to care. Its main purpose, according to French Pundit Pierre Hassner: "To force the parties to choose sides, to stand up and be counted...