Word: leake
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Americans once tended to treat high art as a refuge from mass culture. Let Hollywood exude whatever schlock it wanted; let the Box leak its eight hours of imagery a day into the average viewer's skull -- there would always be the Manet or the Rothko in the museum to reorient the distracted eye. The demands (and rewards) of painting were one thing, those of mass media another...
...Rose Garden affair was a private salute to Deaver, who went off into his own public relations business, the last of the three to find new work. Baker, the Secretary of the Treasury, ribbed him about being an expert "leak" and brought appreciative snorts by invoking the standard White House parry to outsiders: "And remember, Mike, don't call us, we'll call you." Deaver, in reply, pronounced Baker's words "the best speech" that Margaret Tutwiler, Baker's assistant, ever wrote...
Take, for example, a whispered conversation between Jack and Babette on the symptoms of exposure to a local "chemical leak...
During the unseemly scramble among American lawyers to sign up victims of the gas-leak disaster in Bhopal, India, the headlines were studded with the likes of San Francisco's Melvin Belli. But in a Manhattan federal court last week, when the government of India filed what could be the most significant of the Bhopal lawsuits, it was represented by a law firm that had not even sped to the scene. Its name draws a blank among nonlawyers: Robins, Zelle, Larson & Kaplan of Minneapolis. The choice, however, was no surprise to many in the legal profession. In the arcane field...
...soapbox preaching rebounded against him, redoubling the calls for a new investigation. Says his lawyer Barry Slotnick: "It took him out of the light of the humble, decent Bernie Goetz and made him a public figure who was pontificating on things." Information from his videotaped confession began to leak out. The man the public had proclaimed a hero had called himself a monster, and people wondered whether he might not be right...