Word: circuitous
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Weinberger has a voracious appetite for work. Normally at his desk by 7:30 a.m., he puts in a twelve-hour day and leaves with a briefcase full of paperwork. Weinberger enjoys making appearances on the cocktail circuit, though he is a nondrinker. He also spends an occasional evening at the theater or a concert, with an Anglophile's preference for Purcell and other English composers. Indeed, such is his enthusiasm for Britain that last year he accepted an invitation from the Oxford Union to debate British Historian E.P. Thompson on the proposition that "there is no moral difference between...
...Leonard gives this piece of business a nice wrinkle by delaying the punch line for eleven pages. Don't ask how; the ploy works like the rim shot of a drummer perking up a lounge comic's routine. Leonard may not be the tightest plotter on the popular thriller circuit, but he is the writer who pays closest attention to getting the tacky details right. Bribing a night clerk with a greasy cheese-steak sub is something that could happen only in the Philadelphia-South Jersey axis of ethnic indigestibles...
...having health difficulties. A member of the Soviet Central Committee is reported to have told a visiting French official two weeks ago that Chernenko was ailing. Since then, the Kremlin has dropped hints that the President's condition is not serious. On Moscow's somewhat cloistered cocktail party circuit, Soviet officials have been quietly confirming to foreign diplomats that Chernenko is ill. Some of the Soviet gossipers have even averred that his condition is "quite" serious...
Zadok's letter continued to be embroiled in disputes last week. On Wednesday, Judge Sofaer asked reporters and spectators to leave the courtroom while he read Zadok's reservations to the jury. Attorneys representing various news organizations appeared before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals the next day to challenge Sofaer's decision to close the courtroom. "Does Judge Sofaer have the power to make an agreement with a foreign country that bars the American public from an American trial?" asked Floyd Abrams, a well-known First Amendment lawyer. The appeals court decided to reserve judgment on the case...
...ubiquitous message beepers and by sophisticated police equipment like mini- video cameras. The lack of clear legal rules for police use of the equipment promises to keep the courts busy. Just last month two federal courts clashed on the issue when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago overruled a federal district court and found that video surveillance of four suspected members of the Puerto Rican terrorist group FALN did not violate the Fourth Amendment's guarantee against "unreasonable searches and seizures." Says University of Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone: "Technology--bugs, beepers that police attach...