Word: punditizing
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Washington has too many columnists, says Robert J. Donovan of the Los Angeles Times, who could be considered a Washington columnist of sorts himself. But there are not many like Donovan. No pundit, he specializes in writing around the news and stresses a new, people-oriented approach in interviews with the famous, the forgotten and the obscure. His low-key offbeat efforts do not aim for headlines, but the Times is now syndicating them to 200 papers...
...hypersensitive to the fear of coming back and messing up a bureau I'd put together," he says, "and I dreaded the idea of becoming just one more pundit. I had to find a niche, and I think I've latched on to an idea that's sustainable. This is a fresh-stocked lake...
...myth slayer has ended by creating his own myth. Still, Revel's act of provocation works pretty well within its own terms, and his corrective exaggerations should also have their good effects. At the very least, the author will become the pundit of the season. Writing grand-design scenarios of the future is a more popular art now than science fiction, even if less reliable. But how truly has the word expert been defined as "a man away from home...
...within the space of two weeks-Bob Dylan accepted an honorary degree from Princeton and issued a double album, "Self Portrait." It was hard to decide which seemed the sadder indication of his degeneration. On the one hand, accepting a degree-and especially an honorary degree for being a pundit-seemed to be just the sort of thing that Dylan had always promised himself he'd never...
...reconciled to a third straight day of televised football. A survey determined that 75% of the ladies "made favorable comment or made no objections." ABC claims that viewer letters have "virtually all been in favor" (though "a substantial number have objected" to the prolixity of Press-Box Pundit Howard Cosell). A piddling 4% of the sample reported domestic disagreement over whether to watch the game. Anxious to exploit even that minor discord, NBC has fought back by programming specials with TV's No. 1 draw, Bob Hope, and with "female-oriented" movies (this week Lady L, a Romain Gary...