Word: secret
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dining hall and grill abound with people you know from a sentence or two. One fellow is sombre because his roommates for some reason surround him on excursions to dinner like agents of the Secret Service. A woman new to the house is beautiful but, in various senses, supposedly inaccessible. A couple virtually makes love, drily, near the pinball machine. Should one decide that they are, in fact, in love, or are they just taking advantage of each other...
...time, Regan says he was kept in the dark about Mrs. Reagan's secret, which had been closely held by a handful of aides since Reagan days as the governor of California...
Until the artist's death last year, after gallbladder surgery, the extent of his hoard had largely been a secret. As compulsive consumers go, he was inconspicuous. An old pal, Collector Suzie Frankfurt, once noticed a slight bulge under his shirt at a Studio 54 bash: it was a dazzling emerald necklace. Yet Warhol's opulent town house on Manhattan's Upper East Side was so cluttered with the fruits of his shopping binges that only two or three rooms were habitable. Picassos were stuffed in closets. Jewels were squirreled away in the canopy of his antique four-poster...
...campaigned 15 hours a day, sometimes more. No one could send out laundry. We weren't in one place long enough for it to come back. The men bought wash-and-wear shirts and charged them to their expense accounts. Access to the candidate was total. There was no Secret Service. Staff and press, candidate and wife -- and dog -- intermingled...
...Intifadeh, a hard-line, pro-Syrian faction. His first assignment was to transform the informal activism of his home refugee camp into an efficient engine of protest. With seven other Palestinians representing most of the P.L.O. factions and one spokesman for unallied "independents," Mahmoud welded together a series of secret subcommittees charged with various aspects of the rebellion...