Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second possibility is that with the retirement of Dining Services Director Michael P. Berry last year, the new guard has revamped the menu and included campus-wide mind control by adding grade-A, nutritionist-approved neuromodulators to the diet. Rumor has it that the "savory-baked tofu" never tasted better. However, this could never be pulled off, for like the "fresh-squeezed" taste of the Vitality juice or "authentic curry" that we are served, imitation or generic thought control substances are never on par with the genuine article...
...theory about the crash of TWA's Flight 800 [NATION, Sept. 30] has been circulating claiming that a missile from a U.S. Navy warship on maneuvers may have downed the aircraft. Although this rumor has been vehemently denied by the Navy and the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, what a sorry state of affairs it would be if this proved to be true. It would be one of the biggest and worst cover-ups in U.S. history. VICKI DUCANOIS St. Avertin, France...
DeGeneres neither confirmed nor denied the rumor that her alter ego would come out of the closet--a possibility that TV Guide publicized a few weeks ago. Instead, DeGeneres pirouetted around the reports with prepackaged quips she used over and over in her appearances: "The character does find out--and this is where the confusion comes in--that she is Lebanese...
...opposite can have explosive consequences. Immediately after Israel opened another entrance to a pre-existing archaelogical site in Jerusalem, the word spread throughout the West Bank and Gaza that Israel was digging under Islamic holy sites in a blatant gesture of hostility towards Israel's Muslim residents. The rumor was a lie, but it nonetheless had a quick and deadly effect. For three days, Palestinian mobs armed with automatic weapons, stones and bottles terrorized Israeli towns and army outposts. This was an offensive campaign: no Israeli soldiers retaliated with live ammunition until they came under Palestinian fire...
About the orchestra, as in most student productions, the less said, the better. To its credit, it was obtrusive only in the most difficult songs, like "I Can Cook Too." The arrangements were made by Rodney Lister, who also accompanied in some songs; in both capacities he was successful. Rumor has it that the whole show was put together in only a week, with two rehearsals; if so, the orchestra's performance comes to seem decent, and deLima's positively Olympian -- or, even better, Lenyan...