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...somehow seems more gigantic, more ridiculous and more murderous than any other real-life figure; if he did not exist, a novelist could scarcely invent him. As it happens, Big Daddy has already inspired what amounts to a budding literary subgenre. In Britain, two small satirical paperbacks by Punch Columnist Alan Coren, The Collected Bulletins of President Idi Amin and its sequel, The Further Bulletins etc., have sold 750,000 copies. Within the past year, at least four fictional thrillers (Target Amin, The Killing of Idi Amin, Excellency and Crossfire) and a play (For the West, by Michael Hastings), dealing...
...pretend to be heaven. Yet almost everybody recognizes that the season's character transcends those familiar bracing days, crystal nights, bigger stars, vaulted skies, fluted twilights, harvest moons, frosted pumpkins and that riotous foliage that impels whole traffic jams of leaf freaks up into New England (even though Columnist Russell Baker has reminded them that "if you've seen 1 billion leaves, you've seen them all"). What is not widely recognized is that autumn is richly enhanced simply by what it is not. Specifically, it is not summer, winter or spring...
...York Times, Columnist James Reston reported that some of Lance's Georgia colleagues were "privately and sadly...conceding that he is embarrassing the President and will probably have to go." In an editorial, the Wall Street Journal concluded that the major issue is not the questions the Lance affair raises about Banker Bert but the questions it raises about Jimmy Carter. Said the paper of the President: "The central question is not so much 'Is he honest?' as 'Does he know what he's doing...
Blondie is thought to be the most widely distributed comic strip, with some 1,700 clients worldwide; Jack Anderson, with about 600 clients, is probably the most popular columnist. There is no way of knowing for sure; nor will the syndicates disclose how much they charge newspapers for their wares. The fees are based on circulation; the least a small daily can pay for any feature is probably $5 a week, and the $325 a week the Bulletin (circ. 541,000) was paying for Doonesbury is probably near the top end of the scale. Any feature that does not eventually...
From a letter sent to Columnist Breslin: "I am a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest, anxious to please Sam. I love my work...