Word: indiscreetness
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...started a family but went on cruising for boys, for which he shows scant contrition. He asserts that homosexuals number at least nine nameless other members of Congress and key aides to President Reagan. But other closet gays do not rattle the door quite so clumsily. Bauman was so indiscreet -- stopping at notorious pickup spots in a car bearing congressional license plates -- that it is hard to understand why he was not seized sooner...
This was the public Beaton. The private one could only be revealed posthumously, once the unexpurgated diaries came to light. Vickers can hardly be called indiscreet for ransacking them. After all, the diarist himself believed that his record of snobbism and social vaulting, of erotic triumphs and humiliations would make "amusing reading" someday. He was correct, but the most remarkable passages are not those of the invert. Fame was Beaton's aphrodisiac, and if heterosexuality was required for a brilliant conquest, well then, he would try that costume for a while. When he met Greta Garbo after World...
...Revillon, where a trench-style coat in black mink sells for $7,600, in contrast to $10,200 at the Revillon salon in Saks Fifth Avenue. The most expensive fur coats in France are the rare Russian lynx. Revillon sold one this winter for $303,000, but thinks it indiscreet to say who bought it. Eat your heart out, Lorelei...
Mondale did not choose to go quite that far, but Jackson's indiscreet accusations finally provided him with an opportunity to put some meaningful distance between the two of them. Mondale called Jackson's remarks "unacceptable" and said they pointed up the "deep differences" that separated the two on many issues. Jackson protested that he was merely calling for a halt to "the politics of exclusion...
...other up." Noted Illinois Senator Charles Percy: "It's been five years since we met with our chief adversaries." The lawmakers described their plea to Reagan at a press conference outside the White House, infuriating the President's advisers, who felt that the G.O.P. leaders had been indiscreet...