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...Although he served as an agitprop official throughout the Stalinist terror, he later became an active supporter within the party of its leading liberal, Alexander Dubček. It was during Dubček's brief tenure as party chief that Kaplan began his career as sort of closet archivist of the previous regimes...
...seemed that here was another normally-incisive writer succumbing to just one more California fetish. While the National Enquirer alone had been interested in investigating Henry Kissinger's trash, everybody--and we're talking here about the well-established publishing world--wanted to know about Patricia Hearst's closet sex life and continual menstrual cycle. (The California papers followed this latter issue quite closely and the ever-staid New York Times devoted several columns in its Sunday magazine to the constant period, nail polish and diet of this heiress-turned-urban-guerilla-turned-heiress-again...
Flaherty echoes Lawson and Murphy on the subject of Pat Horton, adding his own emphasis. "The biggest case for decriminalization was made by the D.A. from Oregon," Flaherty says. Publicly a fence-straddler at the present time, Flaherty is considered a closet supporter of the bill by both Murphy and Oteri, and Murphy includes the South Boston representative among the fourteen members on the 21-man panel who will probably vote for a favorable report...
Carter takes off his suit jacket and dons the zippered gray cardigan he keeps handy in a small closet. A fire is blazing in the fireplace. As he settles behind his desk and sips his morning coffee, he comments on the beauty of the White House and its grounds, the blooming tulips and crabapple trees. A couple of evenings before, he says, he had picked a branch of crabapple blossoms for Rosalynn...
Dolly's bus is equipped with a color TV, cassette player, reel-to-reel tape deck, CB radio and ice chest (soft drinks, beer and wine). It has two bathrooms and sleeps eleven. Dolly has her own room. There is a closet for her 20 costumes and four wigs. About the only way the bus looks like a bus is that it has the familiar lighted sign: WATCH STEPS...