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After a lifetime spent observing, a journalist sees so much pass by that it can blur with the years. But every reporter remembers the special moments and the extraordinary people he encounters. TIME contributor Bonnie Angelo and columnist Hugh Sidey both covered the White House during the 1,000 days of the Kennedy Administration. Those times, and now the remarkable woman who helped define them, are gone. But Angelo and Sidey recall the vivid moments they...
...columnist of the left, Kempton is anything but doctrinaire. He sympathizes as easily with Richard Nixon during his troubles over the buying of a Manhattan co-op as he excoriates Alger Hiss for failing to offer State Department protection to an American victim of Stalin. His prescience is often uncanny. Writing of Ronald Reagan as Governor of California in 1968, he could have been summing up Reagan's presidency 20 years later: "For touching a people who want to forget ugly problems, no politician equals the one who has already forgotten them himself...
...life among the young, hip and artsy in Calgary, Canada. A gay painter (Michael J. Blankenship), blocked in his work, tries to jolt himself by taking a job as a waiter. To help the young couple who own the restaurant, he induces his closest female friend, a beguilingly bitchy columnist, to tout it in print. The place thrives. So does passion between the painter and the young husband (Damian Baldet, a conservatory student giving a captivating and confidently professional performance...
...last Sunday's Boston Globe, columnist Dan Shaughnessy ran a column featuring fabricated quotes from Bruins owner Harry Sinden about his team's upcoming series against the Devils...
While the quotes were obviously the products of a jealous columnist's imagination, I get the distinct feeling that most of the free world was rolling over with laughter at the caustic comments about my home state...