Word: writer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...front pages. New York City Mayor Ed Koch, who faces a tough re-election fight, recently promised reporters -- you guessed it -- a "kinder, gentler Ed Koch." But just in case the President- elect is growing tired of his own cliches, help is on the way: Peggy Noonan, the writer who penned his New Orleans speech, is currently honing a new batch for the Inaugural Address. And none too soon...
...TIME are usually credited with having invented group journalism, the application of many minds to one story. We'll accept that credit, but we're equally proud of another tradition: when an individual writer or correspondent has something special to impart, we make space on our pages for that writer's words alone. This is true of weekly stories, and also of regular columns. Since 1973 Hugh Sidey has written a column for TIME on the presidency as seen from his own special perspective. For twelve years Tom Griffith has dispensed his seasoned views on the press in his Newswatch...
...COCKTAIL HOUR Playwright A.R. Gurney is at his peak in this charming Wasp family comedy about a writer's relatives yearning for privacy, transplanted intact from San Diego's Old Globe. Nancy Marchand glows as the slightly sozzled matriarch...
TONI CHILDS: UNION (A&M). In a year of auspicious breakthroughs for women writer-performers, Childs' was the standout...
...SINGING DETECTIVE Dennis Potter's BBC serial, about a writer lacerated by memory and liberated by fantasy, was an instant cult classic on TV. Now it has barreled onto the big screen -- all 6 hr. 42 min. of singing, dancing, dazzling talking. In either format, a bloody masterpiece...