for tina after being at the
washington post for years.
i would occasionally shake hands
with this guy, very quiet, but i
did not know him as a writer.
him,would tell us about
and you got the feeling that 90%
was true.
the 10% where tina would say he
stuff, i wouldtoug
think that can't be true.
then this job fell on my head
and i started having lunch every
couple of weeks.
in so far as he would ever
comment on anything in the
-- by commenting at
all, even after publication, he
thought he was overstepping and
it was not his prerogative.
what he would say is i really
liked something.
the undiscovered jewel,
that great paragraph, that