Word: secretly
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...lighter side of the spectrum is the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Bow Street social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. The Lampoon castle is a heaven for people who were frequently teased as children and have turned to humor as a defense mechanism...
WASHINGTON: He's appealed on the grounds of executive privilege, attorney-client privilege and the historic silence of the Secret Service. Now Clinton attorney David Kendall is pleading "fundamental fairness" in a bid to see Ken Starr's Lewinsky dossier before it heads to the Hill. "Elemental fairness dictates that we be allowed to respond to any 'report' you send to the House simultaneously with its transmission," Kendall wrote Starr on Monday. In other words, Clinton wants to steel himself against possible impeachment charges and claims a right to read Starr's report a week in advance -- plenty of time...
Journalists' shameful secret is that we love being spun. The networks vie for the privilege of having the next round of lies uttered on their particular Sunday talk show. It's called "advancing the story." Correspondents, only human, are flattered to be leaked upon by important people. Spinning gives journalists something to interpret. If politicos ever started saying it straight, reporters would have nothing to be knowing about...
...Brits, who have had mixed success selling TV to the U.S., have a new secret weapon: NODDY. A small wooden puppet whose friends have names like Big Ears and BUMPY DOG, he has proved irresistible to generations of British kids, so the BBC has made a U.S. version. Want to talk production values? The American show adds cute-beyond-belief child actors, big musical numbers and, of course, star power. CAROL KANE does a turn as the Tooth Fairy. How much does she pay? "Teeth are very expensive," she says. "I don't think you can leave less than...
...production; but the show's real star is Crowley. He has joined the short list of masters in a fertile era for stage designers. Such wizards of pencil and paint as Tony Walton (Guys and Dolls), Robin Wagner (Crazy for You), John Napier (Cats) and Heidi Ettinger (The Secret Garden) create unique worlds from a playwright's words and a director's hopes. When you leave a show "humming the sets," these are the folks to thank for those sumptuous visual melodies...