Word: note
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Wisely, Chamorro's first impulse was to strike a note of reconciliation. "There were no winners or losers in these elections," she told Ortega when the two met at her home the evening after the vote. Chamorro pressed a similar message in her victory speech. "This is an election that will never have exiles or political prisoners or confiscations," she said. Initially Ortega added to the aura of reconciliation with a graciousness that impressed even his harshest critics. In his concession statement, he hailed the "clean and pure electoral process" and pledged to "respect and obey the popular mandate...
LONDON FIELDS by Martin Amis (Harmony; $19.95). The British author of Success and Money: A Suicide Note produces a murderously funny novel about a 1990s world that is tumbling inexorably toward a loveless void...
Regardless, Coach Smith and her players both that this was a great note on which to end the season and it gives all the players great expectations for next year...
...Note the phrase "a little mud on his shoes," because it represents an attitude held by editors and reporters who should know better. They have created two standards in their newspapers and broadcasts: one for real news, in which "a little mud on somebody's shoes" is treated like a little mud, no more, no less, within the context of that person's life and work. Then there are the values of the gossip/celebrity press, a netherworld of journalism in | which flacks and hacks operate in a manner that would never be tolerated in the rest of the paper...
Gossip columns may even feature other gossip columnists. Although most practitioners are too competitive to mention one another, they all take frequent note of Claudia Cohen, who moved from "Page Six" at the Post to the I, Claudia column at the Daily News to her current bully pulpit, Live with Regis and Kathie Lee on ABC-TV. Along the way she vaulted into the ranks of privilege by marrying an A-list name, corporate raider Ron Perelman...