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...year, quickly boarded a chartered jet and arrived there Saturday morning. On Monday, while filming in the city's teeming Shi'ite slums, he was suddenly caught in a storm of bullets. Only by surrendering his tape was Glass permitted to drive away. Two days later, however, came the scoop of the week: after persistent requests from ABC, Amal Leader Nabih Berri arranged for Glass to interview the crew still aboard...
...does not really work; he has neither Waugh's masterly style nor his free-floating malice. Also, when Waugh wrote his comic gems in the '20s and '30s, it was still possible to have a truly innocent hero, like Paul Pennyfeather in Decline and Fall or William Boot in Scoop. A dark half-century later, Boyd's Henderson Dores would not be believable as a pure man; he must be inept and pusillanimous. When last seen, he has lost his job and his women, and his life hangs on his ability to outrun a real attacker. So much, says Boyd...
...Everything money can buy" was the unofficial rule at Stern, the punchy West German photo weekly that would unhesitatingly pay cash for a juicy exclusive. This freewheeling policy backfired disastrously in April 1983, shortly after Stern proudly announced "the journalistic scoop of the post- World War II era": the discovery of 62 volumes of Adolf Hitler's diaries. It soon became clear that Stern itself had been caught in a $3.8 million swindle involving Documents Dealer Konrad Kujau, 46, and Stern's veteran investigative reporter Gerd ("the Detective") Heidemann, 53. The trial of the two men has been under...
...Democrat Thomas O'Neill, Speaker of the House. "I never conceived of the other party as being the enemy," Kirkpatrick said last week. Referring to the late Democratic Senator Henry Jackson of Washington, she went on: "I can best sum up myself by saying I am in the Scoop Jackson tradition. It is a noble tradition of caring in domestic affairs, of understanding there is a legitimate role for Government providing minimum standards of well-being on the one hand, and being deeply persuaded of the legitimacy and success of American society and the failure and tyranny of Communist societies...
...carve a big smile in it, scoop out its brains, stick a candle inside and let it sit on your windowsill. Similarly, Andy Rooney's essays are goofy and brainless, but also warm and pleasant...