Word: secret
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taboo he shattered was exposing the secret, closeted discourse among black Americans about their own," says cultural critic Michael Eric Dyson. "Rock signifies an unwillingness among the younger black generation to abide by the dirty-laundry theory. That theory suggests you don't say anything self-critical or negative about black people where white people can hear it. But the hip-hop generation believes in making money off the publication of private pain and agony...
...locals have a lot of questions. How long will they stay if Hillary fails to win a Senate seat from New York next year? Will the daily parade of cars ever stop? Has the Secret Service bugged our phones? Would we know an international spy if we saw one? Does that omnipresent helicopter mean the end of nude sunbathing? Most important: What will happen to property values...
...wants to live on a highway or in full view of his neighbors. The Clintons did as well as they could on this score. They're off the main road and on a full acre with a lot of mature trees. If that doesn't keep out oglers, the Secret Service will. As for noise, well, Chappaqua is a serene little hamlet--or at least it was before the Clintons decided to move...
...that mine is all that great a risotto, but of all the bat catchers in St. Paul, I probably make as good a risotto as any of them. The secret, besides lavish administration of butter and cheese, is to rush the rice toward the finish line at high speed and then turn off the heat and coast across. My little girl thinks my risotto is more than good enough, but she is glad for everything we set before her. The chapter in the child manual on finicky eaters does not apply to her: she licks her chops the moment...
...Fidelity Investments in Marlborough, Mass., it's a record year for sales of retirement products to small businesses. In 1998 Fidelity sold just over 1,000 plans to companies with 100 or fewer employees; this year it is on pace to sell twice that many. "It's no secret to most Americans that neither the government nor the company you work for is going to be there for you in retirement," says Peter Smail, president of Fidelity's Institutional Retirement Services Co. This fall Fidelity will begin offering a cyber version of the traditional 401(k), known as the e401...