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This proved too much for A.M. Rosenthal of the New York Times, the paper's former top editor and now a conservative columnist. Rosenthal wrote that Buchanan's words amounted to "blood libel," an implication that Jews have "alien loyalties for which they will sacrifice the lives of Americans." Rosenthal later insisted he had not overstated the case: "Buchanan can dish it out; let him take it a little." Others hastened to join in. The conservative Post, Buchanan's publisher in New York City, editorialized that "when it comes to Jews as a group . . . Buchanan betrays an all-too- familiar...
Buchanan remains predictably unrepentant: "I don't retract a single word. The reaction was simply hysterical and is localized to New York." In the truest tradition of the columnist, he vows to have the next, if not necessarily the last, word on the whole topic. A future piece, Buchanan says, will address how out of touch New York City and its media are with the rest of America...
...with style as well. Characters on several series talk directly to the camera or convey their thoughts as ironic commentary on the action. Fantasy sequences and playfully exaggerated camerawork abound. Even routine sitcoms are striving for little stylistic flourishes. NBC's American Dreamer, starring Robert Urich as a newspaper columnist raising two kids, features Our Town-style narration. Working It Out, another NBC sitcom, with Jane Curtin and Stephen Collins as divorced people who meet cute at a cooking class, chronicles the start of their relationship in flashbacks from both points of view, as they confide in their best friends...
Bush's political right wing, normally united in militancy, is split between those who, like New York Times columnist William Safire, would smash Saddam Hussein now, and those who, like columnist Patrick Buchanan, are dead set against "an American-initiated war." So far, Bush is more amused than troubled by that debate. A greater concern is the rising specter of a recession. There is not much disagreement on that among Bush partisans. Richard Lesher, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, views the White House from his office window and allows that "recession is all around us already." There...
TIME's Money Angles columnist offers survival guidelines for a time of economic turmoil. -- Who invented the microprocessor? Gilbert Hyatt...