Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assembled a star-studded roster of followers by aggressively recruiting and regally pampering them at the church's "Celebrity Centers," a chain of clubhouses that offer expensive counseling and career guidance. Adherents include screen idols Tom Cruise and John Travolta, actresses Kirstie Alley, Mimi Rogers and Anne Archer, Palm Springs mayor and performer Sonny Bono, jazzman Chick Corea and even Nancy Cartwright, the voice of cartoon star Bart Simpson. Rank-and-file members, however, are dealt a less glamorous Scientology...
...come to the fore in recent weeks because of several stories the Times has chosen to run in quick succession. By far the most serious surround the paper's treatment of the woman who has accused William Kennedy Smith of raping her at the Kennedy family's retreat in Palm Beach, Fla., in March. One day after the NBC Nightly News disclosed her name, with an elaborate justification, the Times abandoned its own long-standing practice of withholding the names of sex-crime victims and followed suit...
...controversy over the Palm Beach coverage blew up just one week after the Times had published a front-page Sunday piece by Maureen Dowd on Kitty Kelley's biography of Nancy Reagan. In its rush to get the book's allegations into print, the paper made little attempt to substantiate Kelley's more purple passages or to question her notions of fact gathering...
After the Palm Beach story appeared, feminists and other outraged readers picketed the paper's headquarters in midtown Manhattan. The New York tabloids, the Daily News and the Post -- neither of which has printed the alleged victim's name -- cluck-clucked at their august competitor in editorials for violating journalistic ethics. Even Dan Schwartz, the editor of the National Enquirer, which also did not print the woman's name, was claiming that "I think we took a more ethical standard than they...
...Hyatt and his 27% interest in the Alexander's store chain, he will retain the Manhattan trophies he values most: the Plaza Hotel, Fifth Avenue's Trump Tower and a valuable tract of undeveloped Hudson River waterfront. He'll also keep his lavish Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., which features a 118-room mansion and a nine-hole golf course...