Monday, September 28, 2009

William Safire dies at 79

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i470b0d4b36272857cc7e7ef1c36a9259

Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire died Sunday, his assistant said. He was 79.

Safire spent more than 30 years writing on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times. In his "On Language" column in the New York Times Magazine and 15 books, Safire traced the origins of words and everyday phrases such as "straw-man," "under the bus" and "the proof is in the pudding."

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