Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...neighbors ventured out across their well- manicured lawns to ask the staff a few questions. "Will there be bars on the windows?" they wanted to know. "Will they get out and go drinking in the neighborhood?" The answer in each case was of course no, but the questions reveal a familiar attitude toward alcoholics: many people thought of them as hardly better than criminals or at the very least disturbed and bothersome people. But at the same time the fact that a sanatorium for alcoholics had been started by a former First Lady who openly admitted to a drinking problem...
...will take the name of Yale's "Deep Throat" to my grave. This source was the one who allowed me to break the story of how the cafeteria snack-bar had hiked the price of Snickers Bar from 25 to 35 cents. The source (whose name I cannot reveal by name but I'll just give you a hint: he is a Tailor who works at "Rosie's" on Wall Street near Naples and can't stop talking), has given me many other stories, as well...
Then there was another time when this really high-placed source, whose name I have promised never to reveal, told me there was a huge story breaking in Cambridge at The Harvard Crimson. I stopped the presses. I sent my crack team up Route 95 North to spark some killer team coverage of the story...
This source, whose name I cannot reveal (but let me give you a hint: be's the Yale Provost), was the one who turned me on to the fact that Serge Lang had been instrumental in founding the dating service on which Douglas Ginsberg worked, but was brutally fired from after he was caught following clients out on dates and peeping in their windows once they had gone to bed with their dates...
...grab bag of slick thrills and cheap tricks, is clever but unoriginal -- hack chic. And you needn't be a critic to get restless during the longueurs of the film's first hour. Just listen to the crowd. Until Fatal Attraction removes its mask of psychological drama to reveal a familiar horror-movie face, audiences can be often heard giggling in apprehension and + impatience. Something scary has to happen soon, they must think, because nothing is happening...