Word: shams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point of the story." Some editors concede that the press generally overuses unidentified sources. Cooke has made them more aware that a paper's reputation can be just as much at stake as the reporter's. Unnamed sources are often justifiably used to get behind the sham of public statements but can become a lazy reporter's invention to provide a false aura of insider's knowledge...
FORTUNATELY, it takes more than over-directing to take the life out of a Gilbert and Sullivan winner like Patience. Gilbert's lyrics have vet to be topped by any songwriter for sheer cleverness: in Bunthorne's confession that he is an "aesthetic sham," to name just one memorable example, he sings. "This air severe/is but a mere/veneer.... This costume chaste/is but good taste/misplaced." And Lady's Jane's second-act solo, sung by the exemplary Ethelwyn (Muff) Worden, to this day speaks to the audiences of Doctors Tarnower and Pritikin...
Defense Counsel George Koelzer presented another view of the case: "a fraud, a sham, a fake, a lie, a disgrace." The "trusting, easygoing" Williams, said Koelzer, had been taken in by a scheme "created, controlled, produced and directed" by FBI Informer Mel Weinberg. Moreover, said Koelzer, the defendant had refused to accept a bribe for helping Habib immigrate-a fact borne out by tapes introduced later in the week...
...concern for social justice, positions not shared by the New Right. Says Monsignor George Higgins, recently retired after 36 years with the U.S. Catholic Conference: "There is an increasingly grave -danger that the Right-to-Life movement as a whole will be discredited as a right-wing sham...
...Lace Sleeves," about thinking the world is what they say it is in movies or in the paper, and finding out it's all a sordid, ugly sham, the way Elvis did when all those record executives refused to look beyond his slightly spastic exterior--"Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere." The world sullied Elvis's new lace sleeves a long time ago and he still hasn't gotten over it: the song is like a river of tears, and Elvis's vocal is the most expressive of his career, choked yet fluent, cynical yet deeply innocent...