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...playoff victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers and the National League championship--DeLillo went to the library and looked up on microfilm the front page of the New York Times for Oct. 4, 1951, the day after the game. He discovered something that produced what he now calls "a hush in my mind": the Giants' triumph headlined three columns wide on the left and a headline in an identical format on the right announcing a Soviet nuclear test. "Different kinds of conflict," DeLillo remembers musing, "two shots heard 'round the world...
...bash for a Dragnet-type show where he moonlights as technical adviser. He is explaining why his small-screen counterpart seems so bland compared with his own colorful persona. "That's because he's the television version," smirks Jack, who pockets additional cash helping a sleazy Hollywood tabloid called Hush-Hush. "America isn't ready for the real...
...affairs. "I don't fault people for having an interest in me, nor do I try and stop that interest. I just don't participate in it." As the L.A. Confidential tabloid's motto goes, the real Kevin Spacey remains strictly off the record, on the q.t. and very hush-hush...
...table, Trie is instantly hovering about. He insists on bringing the Governor and his companions a new dish on the menu, something called General Tyson's Chicken. The Governor and the state police polish that off and have eight or 10 more dishes, finishing up with Trie's special Hush Puppies Szechuan Style. They ask for their checks, having adopted a Dutch-treat policy since the Clintons developed what they call the McDougal cash-flow problem...
...opening show in George's scenic Gorge Amphitheater was proof of that. It was an intimate extravaganza--with condom giveaways and information booths on issues like rape and reproductive rights--and the performances began with a hush and built to a dreamy sigh. Lilith offers the audience three stages, in separate locations, of gradually descending size and occupied by performers at staggered time intervals. McLachlan was the first act up, playing a spare, unassuming set by herself, holding only her acoustic guitar, on the third and smallest stage, which was about the size of a tollbooth. Cassandra Wilson...