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Humility aside, Pulitzer-prize winning New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis '48 praised the First Amendment and a free press as the hallmarks of a democratic society compared with current press restrictions in South Africa...
...Sandinista government's $40 million project has stirred critics at home and abroad. Scoffed a U.S. State Department official: "It's amazing that they propose to do something like this when they can't even keep food on the shelves." In Managua, pro-Sandinista Columnist Jose Lopez Callejas decried putting a "piece of Miami, Monaco or Switzerland" on land "consecrated by the blood of our heroes and martyrs." The Sandinistas responded to the criticism by imposing a blackout on all new information about the resort...
When he went on sabbatical last January, McEnroe was, by his own admission, burned out. "I was going in a direction that wasn't beneficial to tennis or myself," he told New York Daily News Sports Columnist Mike Lupica. Two months before, he had nearly throttled a reporter at the Australian Open, where he lost in the quarterfinals after playing, as he put it, "like a dog." Then he ignominiously lost his first-round match in the Masters Tournament in Madison Square Garden. Tatum was due to give birth to their child in May, and the father-to-be admitted...
...policy could change. The Senate, led by rebellious Republicans, proceeded to draw up a bill to apply further sanctions. Desmond Tutu, the Anglican Archbishop-elect of South Africa, called the speech "nauseating" and added that "the West, for my part, can go to hell." As New York Times Columnist James Reston put it, "Reagan tried unsuccessfully to persuade the extremists on both sides and lost the moderates in the process...
...fall in," wrote Playwright Terry Johnson. For Heartburn to work, the moviegoer must fall in love with Mark, as Rachel does, then fall out with a crash. So why are these opposites attracted to each other? Not because Rachel is a food writer and Mark is a Washington columnist. But because, up there on the screen, Rachel is Meryl Streep, swathed in easy glamour, and Mark is that cuddly predator Jack Nicholson. Heartburn is a movie about old- fashioned Hollywood star quality -- the sort that, say, Irene Dunne and Cary Grant radiated almost 50 years ago in another love...