Word: secret
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TIME first wrote about Marshall Applewhite and his group in 1975. Four years later the magazine interviewed Paul Groll, a follower of Applewhite and Bonnie Lu Nettles (then known as Bo and Peep), for a story in the Aug. 27, 1979, issue on their secret camp. An excerpt...
...cajole for money to rectify the problem. But their entreaties fell on deaf ears. Congress just isn't very sympathetic to the IRS's real and imagined plaints. But both sides saw eye to eye on one thing: the extent and nature of the swindles had to be secret. No one wanted to give Americans a primer on how to cheat on their taxes...
...billboard for California lust, with cool blue-green eyes, sucked-in cheeks and those Halloween wax lips, ever puckered and pouty. The rock-star-satyr features surely helped land him the Morrison role, as well as those cartoon ghosts of the King of Rock 'n' Roll in Top Secret! and True Romance. Yet the look stops just short of drop-dead handsome. Its steely seriousness--all that grit and drive with no hint of easy humor--suggests less Elvis Presley than Elvis Stojko. If Kilmer is to execute the actor's equivalent of a quadruple toe loop...
Billington is not to be blamed completely. Pinsky himself has slipped into wordiness on the subject. This bit from The New York Times is a true horror: Computers and poetry "share the great human myth of trope, an image that could be called the secret passage: the discovery of large, manifold channels through a small ordinary looking or all but invisible aperture...
Pitt's Frankie McGuire is an assassin for an unnamed group of Northern Irish terrorists sent to America to evade the British secret service, whose noose is beginning to tighten around him. He carries a vast sum of money and instructions to purchase a shipment of Stinger missiles capable of rebalancing the power in Belfast. Given an assumed name and occupation, he enters the country, and the home of Ford's Tom O'Meara, as an ordinary immigrant needing a sponsor. Since Tom is a New York City cop of unquestionable honesty, Frankie's cover is perfect...