Word: circuitous
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None of the course's other practitioners have the show-biz pizzazz that Williamson brings to the lecture circuit. She has linked herself with Hollywood's cause-consciousness by founding the Centers for Living, bicoastal organizations dedicated to providing home help for those with life-threatening diseases. Williamson is also the prime fund raiser for Project Angel Food, a program that delivers 200 gourmet meals daily to dying AIDS patients in the Los Angeles area. Among the 800 volunteers who help with Angel Food are recording mogul David Geffen, Shirley MacLaine, Bette Midler, painter David Hockney and 20th Century...
Discrimination against Hispanics is less sweeping but nonetheless apparent. In a 1990 survey of 20 courses on the pro-golfing circuit, nine said they had Hispanics as members; one declared it had none. The other 10 courses did not respond on the issue. Says Rudy Berumen, a Tempe, Ariz., member of the Mexican-American Golf Association: "It's not that easy for a Hispanic to join some clubs around here. But it would be tougher for a black, unless he was a Governor or Senator...
...December 1989, mail bombs killed Judge Robert S. Vance of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals at his home in Alabama and Robert E. Robinson, a civil rights attorney, at his office in Georgia. Last week Walter Leroy Moody Jr. was convicted of all 71 federal charges stemming from the slayings at a trial in St. Paul. Against the advice of his lawyers, Moody took the witness stand to provide a rambling account of his sex life and blame the Ku Klux Klan for the killings...
What happened next is still unclear, but Robb's people became uneasy about having the tape and destroyed it. A transcript survived, however, as did at least one other copy of the tape made by the original eavesdropper. The Richmond gossip circuit became aware of the material, causing Wilder, while on a trip to Europe, to break the story in a phone interview with the Post. It was a shrewd ploy by the Governor, moving attention from the content of the tape to Robb's possession of it and portraying Wilder as the "victim" of a crime...
Next season deLone and Henikoff will travel to Taiwan to try their luck on the professional doubles tennis circuit. Henikoff says that if she and deLone can win enough rounds of tennis in the pros, the duo would be eligible for the Virginia Slims and U.S. Open...