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...know what you’re thinking: ‘a shared award? That sounds like the kind of wishy-washy flip-flop stuff that got John Kerry in trouble,’” Patashnik said...
...approached him on behalf of another Communist about turning over secret information to the Soviets. Oppenheimer had called the idea “treasonous.” When he was asked about the event in 1943, he suggested that several scientists were approached with the same proposition. Oppenheimer later flip-flopped, telling the FBI that he was the only one approached, but he could never prove which version...
...instruments himself, and producer Brendan O'Brien highlights the intimacy by granting most songs a verse of acoustic guitar before carefully adding keyboards, fiddle, feathery drums and occasional background vocals. (For those curious about what the songs sound like without production, Devils is in the new DualDisc format: flip it over, and there's a DVD of Springsteen playing alone...
...cleanup hitter. "When I hit a home run, I'm as surprised as the next guy," he said after smashing a resounding one for wonderful young Pitcher Bret Saberhagen in a 6-1 celebration. As Pendleton supplied a counterpoint to Brett, White is the flip side of airborne Cardinals Shortstop Ozzie Smith, except White's style is to avoid notice, to be so good that nobody sees he is there, and incidentally to get in front of the ball. His relay to Brett at third base in the first game to disabuse Willie McGee of a triple approximated poetry...
...despair over being spurned by a Soviet girlfriend living in Canada? Or was he an ingenious fake, his flight to the U.S. and subsequent reversal shrewdly planned by the Soviets to humiliate the Reagan Administration and to glean secrets from debriefing sessions with the CIA? Either way, Yurchenko's flip-flop deeply embarrassed CIA Director William Casey and his agency. "You've either got a defector who was allowed to just walk away under circumstances I can't accept or you have a double agent planted on the U.S.," said Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, vice chairman...