Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...correspondent, who severely chided Kinsley but not Bradlee. Broder linked Kinsley with Patrick J. Buchanan, the irascible White House director of communications, as two juveniles playing mock war games, while the "grownups recognize this disaster for what it is, a calamity for the nation." So stuffy an outburst is rare for Broder, but it illustrates an attitude common this time in press coverage. Print all the facts you can find (often in numbing detail), but mute the rhetoric. It is as if journalists, as well as opposition politicians, want to avoid appearing guilty of "breaking another President," knowing that their...
These days CBS's future seems to have arrived, and the huzzahs are rare in the company's corridors. Instead, there is much muttering and trembling, as the tightfisted Tisch continues to direct a rapid and ruthless austerity campaign that has so far cost 1,200 of CBS's 15,500 employees their jobs. Tisch has also lopped off entire lines of the sprawling conglomerate's business (1985 revenues: $4.8 billion), and is said to be looking for buyers who will take on others. Meanwhile, speculation is increasing that the next item to get the ax may be the "acting...
...have only on rare occasions felt uncomfortable in my relationship with my colleagues, but there have been many times when I've been unhappy with my students," he says. "One can't help but feel a sense that there's a special burden to overcome in terms of having credibility with students...
This is especially true of songs which are especially rapid, such as the Major General's song (admirably dispatched nevertheless by Gardner), or particularly soft, such as the duet between Mabel and Frederick (Lee Eichen). But on the whole such moments are rare and really nothing more than slight flaws on an otherwise extremely strong production...
...step. Merely another rare bird: the best damned boot-in-the- mud nature essayist -- piscine, avian or human -- in the business...