Word: writer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Barbara Ehrenreich, a writer and chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, said the legalization of abortion should not depend on the rights of the fetus but on the rights of the woman...
...what it's worth, people like Jeffrey MacDonald should know better than to try forcing a writer to produce a favorable story. Journalists are trying to get the best stories possible and to report what they believe to be true...
Gingrich employed a different device. According to the Washington Post, he persuaded 21 supporters to contribute $105,000 to promote Window of Opportunity, a book on the "American future" that the Georgian co-authored in 1984 with his wife Marianne and a science fiction writer, David Drake. Though the book sold only 12,000 hard-cover copies and failed to make a profit for its publisher, the investors reaped tax benefits for their contributions. They also paid Marianne Gingrich nearly $10,000 for her efforts. Gingrich admitted last week that his book deal was "as weird as Wright...
...HEIDI CHRONICLES. Joan Allen's poignant playing turns writer Wendy Wasserstein's feminist cliches into a touching glimpse of baby boomers grown older if not wiser...
...newcomer of the year thus far is John Collee, a British physician and writer of TV medical scripts. In A Paper Mask (Arbor House; 232 pages; $16.95), his second book, the premise is that most emergency-room orderlies fancy themselves able, by practical experience, to diagnose and treat patients, and that one of them decides to give it a try. This antihero, who assumes the name and hospital residency of an acquaintance who is killed in an accident before he can report for duty, makes some disastrous mistakes -- but such is the imposing aura of his purported professional credentials that...