Word: punditing
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...weeks Didion neither gets nor expects to get to the bottom of who is doing what to whom and why. She is clearly unsympathetic toward the Salvadoran government and skeptical about a U.S. policy that would polarize the region into extreme leftists and rightists. But Didion is no pundit. Her strength is in conveying atmosphere and her own sense of horror, although this is not always completely convincing. Seated one night on the porch of a restaurant with her writer husband, John Gregory Dunne, Didion notices a shadowy figure in a truck and a man with a rifle...
...tightrope-walking act of writing a column, Safire has the Washington gifts of balance and timing. He can manage to be topical without sounding like every other pundit; he can venture into quirky subjects without seeming irrelevant. He knows how to provoke readers enough that they keep reading, but not so much that they angrily turn the page. He is a master of both puckish wit and ear-splitting indignation, yet on matters of moral consequence he can write with majestically measured restraint. He boasts of having taken the scalps of Cabinet members, congressional leaders and diplomats...
...loses 20% of its revenue just from home taping. Jack Reinstein, treasurer of Electra/Asylum/ Nonesuch Records, calculates 400 million albums were taped off the air in 1980 alone, "without any compensation to the artist, the songwriters and publishers, the musicians, the record company." Huffs Kal Rudman, professional music biz pundit: "It's grand larceny! It's outrageous...
...British perspective on the monarchy today, TIME asked the views of one of that institution's most seasoned, if skeptical observers, whose notable career as a journalist, author and television pundit has been punctuated by stints in government service and as editor of Punch...
...word was coined in 1812, when Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry sliced up the state to favor his own party. So peculiar was the shape of one district that opponents described it as a salamander, and one pundit finally dubbed it a "Gerrymander...