Word: secrets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine has a deal with Time-Warner to publish a 200-page parody in the fall of 2000, Lampoon President Matthew C. Warburton '00 said last week...
...going to give the students at Harvard Summer School the secret to being accepted to Harvard University," he said. "To paraphrase the Backstreet Boys, I don't care who you are, where you're from, what you did--as long as you're valedictorian and captain of the lacrosse team...
...didn't know who he was, you'd take him for a typical '70s teenager, face obscured by a helmet of longish brown hair, heading to Central Park with his friends to throw a Frisbee or play with a pack of bandanna-wearing dogs. Sometimes he would lose his Secret Service detail, so he could head for the park and hang out freely with his friends; once after doing so, he was mugged. Eventually, his mother decided to send him to boarding school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass...
...helped that he had fallen in love with Carolyn Bessette, an exquisitely sophisticated Calvin Klein public relations executive. As the relationship deepened and moved toward marriage, they realized that some serious press management was required. They leaked word that they were breaking up--and quietly made preparations for a secret wedding, with their 40 closest friends and family, on Cumberland Island, just off the Georgia coast. The tabloids rented boats and choppers and mounted invasions through a mangrove swamp, but they arrived too late to wreck the wedding. Jackie would have approved...
...presence of this violent blank: What is the text trying to teach us? This merciless--almost preposterous--pounding, these ingenious yet repetitive variations on the theme: they mean something, don't they? They've got to. Some cruelly overwritten sermon on Old Joe's hubris? There must be a secret beneath the surface, down there, full-fathom five, beneath the choppers and clatter of media...