Word: admited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ironies of raising a deaf daughter, the difficulties of administering the New York City Opera were kept in the wings. All the public saw was a golden diva with a smile they could pour on a waffle. But Beverly Sills is 57, as she is the first to admit, and in her twinkling autobiography she is ready for revelations. She brings back the days of doing Progresso commercials on TV, catalogs the hilarities and humiliations of auditions, repeats Arthur Godfrey's introduction on Talent Scouts ("Vickie Lynn ((her stage name then)) is a beautiful girl with mounds of auburn hair...
...admit that the partnership would be strained if one of them consistently earned much more money than the other. But over time things even out. In 1978 Valli was the big breadwinner because he sang the title song from the movie Grease, which brought in an estimated $2 million for the partnership. In 1981 Gaudio starred, when the music he produced for the Neil Diamond movie The Jazz Singer earned him perhaps $1 million or more after divvying up with Valli...
Bracy has retracted the confession he made in March, maintaining that agents of the Naval Investigative Service coerced the statement from him during three days of grueling interrogation. Another retraction came from Corporal Robert Williams, who claimed to have heard a drunken Lonetree admit his espionage activities. Moreover, preliminary security sweeps in the Moscow embassy have turned up no bugs or other evidence indicating that Soviet agents ever got inside the secure area on the ninth floor. "The case against Lonetree has fallen apart," said his attorney, Michael Stuhff. "The whole house of cards is built on sand...
...This is a clear message that sociologists, statisticians, demographers and pollsters have no place in criminal courtrooms," cheered Daniel Popeo, general counsel of the conservative Washington Legal Foundation. Critics unhappily agreed. "Jurors are going to have to jump up and admit they are racists," complained Joe Ingle, director of the Southern Coalition on Jails and Prisons...
...government is the captive of its own meaningless rhetoric," observes Stellenbosch Economics Professor Sampie Terreblanche, a leading National Party adviser, member of the Broederbond and, until he was fired last month for joining the 27, vice chairman of the South African Broadcasting Corp. "The government is never prepared to admit mistakes. It will not dismantle apartheid. The National Party is an Afrikaner party, and it intends to keep power not just in white hands but in Afrikaner hands. It was never in favor of real reform. That was just cosmetic, to prolong Afrikaner control...