Word: schorr
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Also remarkable are the senuous forms of Anders Zorn's ninteenth-century nudes and his well-rendered, impressionistic "Omnibus," with hatching strokes powerfully suggesting the jostled weight of human bodies. A tight, involved etching by contemporary artist David Schorr and a striking and politically charged work in an intense blue aquatint by Douglas Dowd are similarly unexpected highlights of the exhibit. These works show the range of etching as a medium of both great precision and, at times, emotional impact...
Watergate, a five-hour documentary series produced for the BBC by Norma Percy (The Second Russian Revolution), narrated by former CBS and CNN correspondent Daniel Schorr and airing next week on the Discovery Channel, is a refresher course that shouldn't be missed. Lucid and laconic, unsparing but never sanctimonious, it retells the Watergate story in patient, no-nonsense detail. Here, once again, is the paranoid Nixon White House of the early '70s, so obsessed with political foes that it had a psychiatrist's office burglarized to get dirt on Daniel Ellsberg (who had released the Pentagon papers) and ordered...
Describing television's replacement of radio and newspapers as the country's most influential journalistic medium, Schorr paraphrased essayist E.B. White...
...President Clinton has effectively hijacked television from journalists by talking over their heads--and don't think we don't get mad about it," Schorr said...
...White spoke of the race between the things that are and the things that seem to be," Schorr said. "Today, the things that seem to be are running far ahead. I just hope that a younger generation of journalists will run hard to reclaim the things that...