Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nolte plays a Chicago columnist (with something no Chicago newspaperman has: a deep tan). Roberts is his rival on a hot story involving murders, environmental hazards and this summer's obligatory movie thrill, an elevator in jeopardy...
...including his most talented, Martin Pemberton, the disinherited son of of the late Augustus Pemberton, a millionaire whose death and funeral had made the papers the previous September. None of the editorial comments or public eulogies mentioned the true sources of the old man's fortune, although McIlvaine the newspaperman knows what they were: Pemberton had run illegal slave ships out of New York harbor, with the connivance of Boss Tweed's ring, and had also profitably supplied Union troops during the Civil War with substandard goods -- "boots that fell apart, blankets that dissolved in rain, tents that tore...
Could any other tabloid newspaperman have been found on a New York City sidewalk in the middle of the afternoon, puffing a pipe and surveying the passing scene while listening to the music of Henry Purcell? It was Monday, the one working day he wasn't on deadline, and Murray Kempton was happy to slip off the earphones of his portable CD player and muse about Rebellions, Perversities and Main Events (Times Books; 570 pages; $27.50), a new collection of his writings...
...body." His faithless wife is "thin, moist, hot . . . in another time, another sex, she would have been a Genghis Khan." After they marry, her "desire reversed to detestation like a rubber glove turned inside out." But as Quoyle heads to Newfoundland and fumbles through life as a newspaperman, the author eases up and allows an occasional smile...
...Cajuns are as different from New Orleanians as New Orleanians are from Protestants in the rural north. Yet all Louisianians share something that sets them apart -- at least in their own minds -- from other Americans. They are bound, in the words of Bill Lynch, a former newspaperman who now serves as the state's inspector general, "by our unforgiving history." It is a paradoxical chronicle of political corruption and roguishness, of fabulous oil wealth and red-clay poverty, of exile and immigration, cultural blending and racial divides...