Word: publicists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wife $55,000 for choosing fabric and paint chips for his office at the same time the Oregon Senator was urging federal support for Tsakos' $12 billion oil pipeline? Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry's wife Effie hardly got those fur coats and low-interest loans as just another "publicist" in a town where nearly everyone fits that description...
...accurate Martin's amatory scorekeeping really is. In his acknowledgments and chapter notes, the author cites the "invaluable" assistance of interviews with Richard M. Clurman, for many years Time Inc.'s chief of correspondents, and his wife Shirley, a close friend of Clare's and a former TIME publicist. But Dick Clurman states categorically that he merely gave Martin a list of potential sources and was too busy to submit to an interview. Shirley Clurman says she spoke with Martin "for 20 minutes, maximum." Asked about the author's assertion that Clare and Randolph Churchill were lovers, Mrs. Clurman...
...busybodies are motivated by sheer bloody-mindedness. A persistent neo-Prohibitionist movement has added to the woes of the nation's wine industry by pressuring the Treasury's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms into demanding ever more prominent and explicit health-warning labels on bottles. (One irate California publicist responded by labeling some Lake County Cabernet Sauvignon "Chateau le Warning" and putting the Surgeon General's injunctions right up front. The BATF was not amused...
Through his publicist, Reubens denied the accusation, but that little detail hardly registered among the seismic aftershocks of the original arrest. Reubens' mug shots made the front pages; heavy psychological hitters like Dr. Lee Salk and Dr. Joyce Brothers were enlisted to advise parents on what to tell the kids. The radio and TV airwaves were suddenly alive with Pee-wee jokes (His favorite baseball team? The Montreal Expos. His next television project? A remake of Diff'rent Strokes). CBS yanked the five remaining repeat episodes of Pee-wee's Playhouse, and the Disney-MGM Studios pulled a two- minute...
Like the hungry infant's cry, the car alarm is designed to be unignorable -- that is, unendurable. One popular model from Code-Alarm, for example, puts out 125 decibels: "Louder than a police siren," says a publicist, "louder than a rock concert." A good car alarm is a sharp blade of sound: it pierces sleep, it goes into the skull like an oyster knife. In a neighborhood of apartment buildings, one such beast rouses sleepers by the hundreds, even thousands. They wake, roll over, moan, jam pillows on their ears and try to suppress the adrenaline...