Word: secret
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mediagate, which goes for $12.95 from the Atlantic Monthly Press, followed last year's successful USA Today parody. Former Vice President William L. Oakley '88 of the Lampoon, a semi-secret social club that occasionally publishes parodies, said the McPaper spoof sold 1.2 million copies...
...public figures can still get by without the ability to lie. Look at Ronald Reagan. All you have to do is flash your charming smile and let your sincere but vague manner show through, and you too could acquire his Teflon coat of armor. Perhaps he should market his secret. It could make him millions, as well as provide us with a new generation of truly effective leaders who could, in all sincerity, say (and not break into peals of laughter) "Let's do this one for the Gipper...
...Mantle fertility clinic. She is a famous actress with a healthy sexual appetite, a trifurcate cervix and the desperate yen to bear a child. Desire stirs Bev's instincts; propriety tries to tamp them down. It is a dangerous move to admit someone besides Ellie into his secret life. Love for an outsider will distort the twins' delicate imbalance. They had been complementary halves of one identity: body and mind, | curiosity and compassion, sex and guilt, Don Juan and Don Knotts. Now the seesaw must tip from sanity to psychosis...
...colleagues were aghast, but the secret was out. And the revelation was further compounded by Dewdney's landmark article in the May 1984 issue of Scientific American, which described Core War and offered readers who sent $2 for postage a copy of the guidelines for creating their own viral battlefields...
Asked if he thought Wright had abused a process in which the executive branch shares secret intelligence information with selected congressional leaders, Reagan said, "I just say it's common sense to not discuss anything having to do with intelligence operations and so forth...