Word: hushing
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...killers was at best a secondary concern. According to Western diplomatic officers, local police were busily cleaning up the ambush site instead of collecting evidence or interviewing witnesses. By midday, phone lines were cut in Vang Vieng, and the road around the town sealed. "They were trying to hush it up," claims a diplomatic official, to "pretend it didn't happen...
...groundbreaking 1981 novel. Those involved will only be interviewed in a room high in the building, away from where the show is taking shape. What's happening down there? "We're experimenting, playing games, finding a theatrical language for the play," says its director Tim Supple. Despite all the hush-hush, there's been no shortage of advance buzz over the play, which opens in London's Barbican Theatre on Jan. 29. Its provenance alone guarantees the highest expectations: Rushdie's 1981 novel is a modern classic found on literature syllabi in universities around the world. The project's other...
...from him to keep their onetime affair a secret. Jordan acknowledged that he had a liaison with Knafel more than 10 years ago, though it was not specified when the relationship started or whether he was married at the time. He also admits having paid her $250,000 in hush money, but says that when she came back for more, he went to court. Earlier this year, Jordan's wife Juanita filed for divorce, but the two reconciled a month later. Not much is known about Knafel except that she had a bit part in the 1991 film Bikini Island...
Before a packed theater in Hollywood, a nude blond totters onto the stage tied up and blindfolded. A hush falls over the audience of several hundred as she begins to flex her arms and whip her torso around like a bronco, until eventually the rope loosens and her hands break free. She sheds the blindfold and slips out of her bonds to reveal a black thong. She glares icily, turns around and slaps her butt. The crowd--especially the half of it that's female--gives...
...Cairo cafes. Amid the blare of Arab pop music, the dice hitting the backgammon board and the clink of teacups on metal tables, just having an audible conversation can be tough. But these days dead silence from the patrons is not uncommon. In cafes with satellite TV, that hush comes every hour on the hour, when the news bulletin airs on the Qatari channel al-Jazeera, the pre-eminent Arab news network. At Cafe Lialina in the heart of downtown Cairo, the grisly footage of Palestinian corpses in the West Bank town of Jenin--mutilated, burned, rotting in the open...