Word: secret
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...half-century of his life onscreen, James Stewart had a guilty secret, and the moviegoing public let him get away with it. Stewart presented himself as an ordinary guy--just a Jimmy. Maybe a slightly overachieving Jimmy, what with the Princeton degree and the Air Force brigadier general's stripes. But all in all a solid Republican sprung from humble merchant stock in Indiana, Pa. In a lifetime of movies, Stewart was the goodwill ambassador for a genial, vanishing America...
Those who kept the secret and lied repeatedly to the public to hide the technological manna from heaven end up looking omniscient and justified. He shows how America's interests were served for decades by publicly stonewalling the UFO issue while achieving, in total secrecy, the scientific breakthroughs that literally define our modern world. The debris from the Roswell crash was not manufactured on Earth. PAUL DAVIDS Los Angeles...
...usually take my copy of your magazine with me to lunch when I privately indulge in reading the tabloids (the Star, the National Enquirer, etc.). I use TIME to cover my other reading material so that no one will know my secret. The Roswell cover didn't provide much of a disguise. What's next? Elvis sightings? STORMY JADE WONG Lawndale, Calif...
...clever performer and a witty lyricist, the man behind the Mountain Goats on his own terms stands as a giant of the bedroom-music scene. No matter that his following bears more resemblance to a secret club than music fans. Or that his set list is a conglomeration of travel itineraries and Latin aphorisms. With a broad smile and a warm hello, the club president is open and welcoming, and his concerts are large circles of friends who are all too eager to invite you into their slightly abnormal lives...
...ancient wooden tables like in an army barracks. At the front of the hall, elevated one foot above the rest of us, is the High Table; large silver candelabras, fine bone china and a staff of three to serve about six dons. When all students are seated, a secret door opens on stage and the High Table diners, with glasses of sherry in hand and long black academic gowns fluttering behind them take their seats...