Word: press
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more important than Felder's brief-side manner, however, is his ability to win big money for clients with his uncanny publicity skills. Perceiving that the public had judged Robin Givens to be a gold digger in pursuit of her hubby's heavyweight fortune, Felder told the press that Robin sought no money from the divorce. But less than a month later, he filed a $125 million libel suit against Tyson on her behalf. The reason? The champ was quoted in the New York Post lambasting the actress and her mother as, among other things, "the slime of the slime...
First came Mikhail Gorbachev. In his speech to the United Nations last month, he promised to change practically everything about the Soviet Union except its name (and, presumably, its leader). Asked at a press conference the next day whether he believed Gorbachev was sincere in trying to remake the Soviet Union into a less threatening country, Ronald Reagan replied, "Yes, I do." Coming from the longtime and unabashed cold warrior, in the midst of his own swan song, those three words were almost as significant as Gorbachev's hour-long oration...
...Tuesday a press conference that was expected to feature the announcement of Sullivan's appointment was hastily canceled. Sullivan was summoned to Washington to meet with pro-life activists and congressional foes of abortion, including Utah Senator Orrin Hatch and Congressman Vin Weber of Minnesota. During three hours of cordial but intense questioning, Sullivan insisted that he was solidly in their camp, at one point even calling abortion "murder...
...maroon woolen gloves and says, "Take them, please. They're free. They're a gift. No strings attached." Then he shakes a trembling hand. This simple act of communion, says Greenberg, "will almost invariably bring a smile of acknowledgment. You can tell the handshake is in earnest because they press your fingers...
Still another possibility was that Islamic extremists linked to Iran were involved. In London an anonymous caller to the Associated Press claimed that the Pan Am plane had been attacked in retaliation for the shooting down of an Iranian Airbus last July by the U.S. Navy cruiser Vincennes, which mistook the passenger plane for an F-14 fighter. All 290 aboard perished...