Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...journalist dealing with heads is caught in a strange dilemma. The only way to write honestly about the scene is to be part of it. If there is one quick truism about psychedelic drugs, it is that anyone who tries to write about them without firsthand experience is a fool and a fraud...
...opened up what he called his "portfolio of interests"-a file fat enough to occupy any energetic man full time. He planned to teach a course at Harvard on the press and politics, write a book about his 40-year career as a journalist, consult two or three days a week on various Time Inc. projects, serve on the boards of the Washington Star, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., and the Ford Foundation, among others...
...Journalist Donovan:providing insight and counsel
DIED. Joseph Kessel, 81, globetrotting French journalist and author of some 50 novels; in Avernes, France. Raised in Russia, Kessel flew far-flung missions for the French air force during World War I, experience he later evoked in his war and adventure tales. During World War II, he took a dangerous part in the French Resistance and he wrote lyrics for the movement's anthem, Chant des Partisans. Three of his best-known novels became movies: The Lion, The Horsemen, and Belle de Jour, filmed by Luis...
...manipulation of cutting rhythms and camera movement--and a wide streak of sadism. His films have been highly influential to Godard, among others, whose praise and tribute has lifted Fuller to a sort of cult status. Shock Corridor--starring no one you've ever heard of before--concerns a journalist who, in hopes of earning a Pulitzer prize, disguises himself as a patient in an insane asylum to discover the identity of a murderer hiding there. Other patients include a nuclear physicist, a Tennessee boy convinced he's in the midst of the Civil War, and a roomful of scantily...