But hostile segments of the press kept up the barrage of caustic coverage.
She was, we do not doubt, "a superstar who, though dogged by scandal, was adored by her followers, large segments of the press, and the increasingly secular American public".
The fashion circus went on, of course, or most of it did, although without that segment of the press and buying corps that felt things were safer at home.
He then became executive director of the Royal Opera House, where, as the fourth director in two years, he was greeted by a $30 million deficit, a troubled renovation and hostility from large segments of the British press.
Yet in recent years some restrictions have been eased and segments of the mainstream press, particularly a handful of influential newspaper columnists, have engaged in a robust debate on sensitive social and political topics, often criticizing the government sharply.
In a half-hour segment on "Meet the Press" on Sunday, the varying threads of the GOP political psychology came into sharp contrast.
The former president's first-ever visit to Mr. Letterman's program, videotaped as night fell on a city commemorating the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack, was sober and frequently wonkish, more like a segment for "Meet the Press".
Here is the transcript of a telling segment of this week's Meet The Press, by way of example.
The former Vermont governor aired his discontent during a taping of "Meet the Press," in a segment that preceded a separate interview with White House Communications Director David Axelrod.
These include not only Yeltsin's reactionary adversaries in Russia -- here portrayed in all their vileness -- but the condescending intelligentsia in Russia and abroad, the Western governments infatuated with Gorbachev and a segment of the Western press.
In his laudatory review of Leon Aron's "Yeltsin: A Revolutionary Life" (March 19), Bill Keller dismisses those who "underrate" Boris Yeltsin's performance as either members of "the condescending intelligentsia" or "a segment of the Western press" or as Yeltsin's "reactionary adversaries" in Russia.
