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...work by Californian Richard Posner, 29, is called The Big Enchilada 1975; it depicts in allegorical terms the White House infighting over Watergate. A similar show at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles drew 2,000 people on weekends, while another recent exhibition in the Washington suburb of Reston was jammed during its six-week...
...opinion pieces and are recognized as such. My opinion." To honor the Pulitzer-prizewinning cartoonist, the National Press Club gave him its Fourth Estate Award, which has gone in the past to such heavies as CBS's Walter Cronkite and the New York Times's James Reston. The 68-year-old "Herblock," as he signs his name, says he plans to keep at it for "20 or 30 more years." Now that he doesn't have Nixon around any more, he is concentrating on President Carter. Jimmy, he finds, "looks a little like both Jack Kennedy...
...Washington opinion is set by those commentators and ru-rninators who no longer have to join the pack, who write from their studies, travel the Georgetown dinner circuit and can get through on the phone to anyone who counts. They can report what "Washington" thinks (or even, as James Reston once did, what "a bone-weary Washington" thinks...
...that's just what New York needs these days--star wars and log cabins, a combination of Han Solo and Abe Lincoln. Oh well, maybe if we're lucky they'll dump James Reston for the Wookie...
...higher bid-reportedly $50,000. That sizable salary, and his early columns defending Nixon against Watergate charges, did not endear Safire to many Times colleagues. But readers found him a lively contrast to the paper's other, mostly liberal and often solemn political columnists-Anthony Lewis, James Reston and Tom Wicker. Safire's column is sent to about 450 papers that subscribe to the New York Times News Service...