Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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IN SOME sense our reaction is expectable. There is nothing more exhilirating than knowing that mighty politicians are mortals of flesh, that Gary Hart lusts after women just like the guy next door. Moreover, adultery touches our lives in a way that raping and pillaging does not. We know what...
Private Domain ends in 1974, the year Taylor stopped dancing. Though the last pages are upbeat -- starting work on the exultant Esplanade -- they are preceded by a remorseless account of physical and emotional breakdown. The trouble began when Taylor started gulping Dexamyl, a combination of amphetamine and tranquilizer, not knowing...
The old grandfather clock by the door set an easy rhythm, and Reagan's husky voice carried the tune, but Wyoming's Senator Alan Simpson noticed something else. Again and again, as the visitors identified obstreperous members of Congress and likely collision points, there came a soft and knowing chuckle...
While saying he had no way of knowing whether North had really made that remark to Reagan, Secord said, "It doesn't sound like the kind of story one would hear in the office of the commander-in-chief."
The role he is enacting, Speech Scholar Henry Higgins, became virtually the personal property of Rex Harrison in the musical adaptation, My Fair Lady. Fans seeking a reprise of that winsome performance here will find far more of the imperious exterior with far less of the twinkly sugar daddy beneath...