Word: moles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...might in the current climate question whether a nation needs to underwrite a performance like that. Sue Townsend, author of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, has just published a novel called The Queen and I, which imagines that the royal family has been consigned to a public housing development by a stern republican government that has overthrown the monarchy. The book is both funny and impudent, but it contains a portrait of Elizabeth that is admiring in spite of itself. Townsend plays up Her Majesty's awkwardness, but of all her clan she adjusts best to her alien circumstances...
...volunteers seeking donations and handing out campaign buttons are strictly prohibited from accepting anything larger than $5, Perot's stated limit for personal contributions. There is a fear that a "supporter" who hands over a $10 bill and says "Keep the change" just might be a reporter or opposition mole trying to test whether the cap is truly being heeded...
Seems President Reagan wasn't the only world leader with operatives in THE VATICAN. A story making the rounds in Europe has it that the kgb planted a mole in the Holy See. Boris Alexandrovitch Solomatin, the KGB's Rome chief from 1976 to 1982, claims that Soviet intelligence viewed the Vatican as a hotbed of diplomatic secrets. Trouble was, once the KGB had recruited its St. Peter's agent, it had a little difficulty controlling him: apparently his religious convictions interfered with his supersecret political mission...
...some are calling the "next Naomi." Crawford, 25, is said to have not one but two rivals nipping at her heels: Shana, 21, the Guess? jeans model who is starring in Calvin Klein's ads for his new Escape perfume; and Niki Taylor, 16, who has a mole on her face just like Cindy's. Says Crawford: "People think I'm jealous of Niki Taylor. But I got my 15 minutes of fame, and when you get it you realize it's not what it's cracked up to be." But quitting has never been easy for these coddled darlings...
...medicine down his throat. (The New Orleans coroner ruled that Ferrie died of natural causes, though two apparent suicide notes were found.) Lardner also ridiculed the film's attempt to explain away Garrison's botched prosecution of Shaw by inventing a Garrison aide who turns out to be a mole for the Feds aiming to sabotage the case...