Word: incommunicado
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Betty Friedan calls herself a "bad-tempered bitch." She is incommunicado before 10 a.m. She will not pose on a seesaw with her grandchildren for a photo ("too hokey"), and she is prone to temper tantrums. Yet sitting on the deck of her son's home in Philadelphia, grandchildren running around with buckets washing the family dog, she is comfortably in her element. "It's all about family," she says in that familiar gravely voice...
Detained by Russian soldiers as he left the ruins of Grozny on Jan. 16, Babitsky, who had broadcast hard-hitting reports about Russian casualties and brutalities in Chechnya, was held incommunicado for 12 days. Later his wife learned he had been in a prison where the Russians claim to "filter" terrorists from civilians--using torture, according to human-rights groups. On Feb. 3 the Russians suddenly made a deal with the Chechens to swap Babitsky for two Russian POWs. The outrage was immediate. "What kind of state arrests a journalist and then uses him in a POW swap?" asks Radio...
...anything-goes farce with good lowbrow gag writing and snatches of smart parody. But just try to say goodbye. The show's producers, reportedly miffed at CBS, aren't talking to the press. White, 21, who is finishing classes at UCLA and said to be writing screenplays, is incommunicado as well. All are getting ready, no doubt, for the last episode of Seinfeld...
...dangerous to children? She is more complicated, of course, and soon several magazines will render her in brushstrokes instead of spray paint. But even here there is haste: Mirabella and Spin rushed out advance copies of their articles last week to preview salacious disclosures. Letourneau, in jail but hardly incommunicado, expected less trumpeting and more deliberation, since she had cooperated closely with both writers. For their part, the Fualaaus have sold the story and pictures of Vili to a tabloid, the Globe, for more than $20,000. Their decision was understandable--the family has struggled financially, and a radio host...
...past two weeks, Foale, 40, has remained all but incommunicado, spending his time either with his family or at NASA debriefings. Last Thursday, however, he sat down with TIME for an exclusive interview, his first since returning from his nearly five months aloft. With the help of Foale's recollections, as well as those of his crewmates, it is now possible to piece together the events surrounding last June's accident and reconstruct humanity's most dangerous day in space in more than a decade...