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These are three actual excuses which have been (and continue to be) used by those in the know. Use with caution. They're not original, but they're authentic, and no one ever said the CIA was like James Bond anyway. Come on, don't forget George Herbert Walker Bush was head of this blameless organization...
...Boom" has exactly four letters, but that is not what makes it a metaphoric four-letter word. Its premature use in the past has raised so many false hopes as to give it a Herbert Hooverish ring. Saying it out loud now might well give such offense to the 8.3 million Americans still looking fruitlessly for jobs as to qualify the word as politically incorrect. So, even after the biggest one-month drop in the unemployment rate in 10 years, economists, business and government officials resolutely refuse even to whisper "boom...
There is not a dull or unperfected moment in this year's outstanding Boston Ballet performance of The Nutcracker. Featuring the familiar and well-loved Tchaikovsky score, beautiful and exotic fairy-tale scenery by Helen Senn and Herbert Pond, and exquisite costumes by the British designer David Walker, The Nutcracker provides a wonderful way to celebrate the holiday season while enjoying the best ballet dancing of the year...
Last week Herbert Hoover's son Allan died, Ronald Reagan's daughter Patti Davis, 41, announced her engagement to a 27-year-old laborer, and George Bush's eldest son George W., 47, declared his candidacy for the Texas governorship. Here's what other children of recent Presidents...
...Goucester if he had such grand ambitions, but he too seems resigned to a preordained role: "Gloucester-born, Gloucester-bred, in two or three days, Gloucester-dead," he declares wryly. The sense of place, of stillness and smallness, is reinforced by the set, skillfully designed by Helen Pond and Herbert Senn. Pond and Senn manage to create a two-bedroom house on the cramped Pudding stage, and yet maintain the spareness of a shoreline residence...