As Elsa Maxwell, the gossip columnist and professional hostess, wrote in her 1954 autobiography, "R.S.V.P.," the "best games are those in which failure is comical rather than embarrassing".
Above – or possibly below – party political allegiances stood Rod Liddle, Spectator columnist and professional agent provocateur who now spends much of his day inelegantly straddling that ever-shifting line in the blogosphere between being racist and merely racist-baiting.
In the early rounds of the World Cup, the Australian columnist and professional contrarian Rita Panahi revealed she "couldn't care less about women's sport" because, she claimed, it was an "inferior product".
On Thanksgiving Day, VICE's senior parenting columnist, the professional rapper and male model Kool A.D., dropped a 100-song mixtape called O.K.
I think of Southern's 1958 novel "Flash and Filigree," with its vicious sendup of television culture: a taping of the popular quiz show "What's My Disease?" featuring a panel that includes "a prominent woman columnist, a professional football coach, an actress, and a Professor of Logic from the University of Chicago," questioning a contestant to determine his or her ailment.
The sports columnist is a professional hostage to fortune.
May 24 , 1883Keokuk, Iowa November 1, 1963 New York City, New York Elsa Maxwell, (born May 24 , 1883 Keokuk, Iowa, U.S. died November 1, 1963, New York, New York) American columnist, songwriter, and professional hostess, famous for her lavish and animated parties that feted the high-society and entertainment personalities of her day.
It began as a challenge to the vociferous minority of commenters on the site who seem to believe (judging from what they write) that being a professional columnist on the Guardian is a licence to write ill-informed rubbish about the issues of the moment.
One of those who phoned Gray's program was television personality and columnist Ed Sullivan, a professional rival of Winchell's whose "home base" was the El Morocco nightclub.
While there is no shortage of clever columnists writing on professional football, Slate, the online magazine, recently hired one who uses haiku to praise a winning catch and quantum physics terms to describe a quarterback's passing percentage.
Kathryn Bigelow, a winner with the NYFCC for "The Hurt Locker," won again as best director of "Zero Dark Thirty," her unflinching look at the hunt for Osama bin Laden, which the columnists, writers and professional contrarians also rewarded with best feature.
