Word: writes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years as a newspaper columnist, first at the Cincinnati Enquirer and later at the Washington Star. But Managing Editor Ray Cave, a former sports journalist, was not looking for just a reporter. "He told me he wanted the section to read like a column," Callahan recalls. "I was to write in my own voice." Since then, Callahan has, in his inimitable fashion, described Super Bowls and World Series, Masters tournaments and Olympic Games. In this week's cover story, Callahan looks at two young men who are the premier players in their sports: Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics basketball...
...person who is dangerous as well as immoral can be described as a fierce competitor or gut fighter, and a meddler who cannot leave his subordinates alone is a hands-on executive. When strung together properly, apparently innocent modifiers can acquire megaton force. For instance, a journalist may write, "A private, deliberate man, Frobisher dislikes small talk, but can be charming when he wants to." In translation this means, "An antisocial, sullen plodder, Frobisher is obnoxious and about as articulate as a cantaloupe." The familiar phrase "can be charming" is as central to good journalese as "affordable" is to automobile...
...began five years ago, when Senators Gary Hart and William Cohen sat down over a cup of coffee. Spookily enough, it turned out that the Colorado Democrat and the Maine Republican had each hankered to write a spy novel. Both are experienced authors (Hart, 48, has written two books about politics; Cohen, 44, has two volumes of nonfiction and one of poetry), and they stuck to an outline jotted down on the back of an envelope at the outset. The result, to be published in May, is The Double Man, a Washington potboiler about a U.S. Senator on a trail...
...that is only the beginning. The investor, who typically leases his yacht to a firm that operates charter fleets, can write off interest costs and virtually all other expenses associated with the purchase and can further slash his taxes by fully depreciating his boat over five years. Even the price of air fare to and from the mooring place can sometimes be deducted as a cost of inspecting the craft...
Screenwriter Alan Bennett has described A Private Function as "the fulfillment of his long-held desire to write about a chiropodist and (Director Malcolm) Mowbray's wish to direct a film about a pig." In fact, they have larger issues to lance. Although the film is set during Clement Attlee's Labor reign, it applies just as ferociously to Margaret Thatcher's pinchpenny Britain. With its double-edged title and its tone of bitter whimsy, A Private Function asks to be taken as a hymn to the meanness of the human spirit, in ) which the one decent soul...