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...sordid tale does not end there. Several weeks later, while watching TV at the home of a female admirer, I was shocked to see my script performed virtually word for word. Only the vaguest attempt had been made to disguise its true source: the setting had been changed from the Soviet Union to the United States, the admiring allusions to myself had been taken out, and the title had been changed, unimaginatively, from Rusha to Amerika...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: From Rusha With Love | 2/21/1987 | See Source »

forward to confess involvement in this sordid...

Author: By Shannon E. Liss, | Title: Rascal Rodents Run Rampant | 2/17/1987 | See Source »

...more conventionally fleshed-out story. While At Mother's Request focuses mainly on the murder and subsequent investigation, the NBC version will provide a fuller portrait of Frances' life (Lee Remick will play the role). It may even try to make some psychological sense out of the whole sordid affair. But for sheer perversity, At Mother's Request will be hard to beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Murder,They Both Wrote AT MOTHER'S REQUEST | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...beginning, Democratic party leaders have been bashful about making political hay out of this scandal by publicly needling Reagan to resign. Michael Kinsley '72, in The New Republic, manages to summon up the courage to tell fellow liberals to get a guilt-free chuckle out of the whole sordid affair...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: Feeling Good, Doing Bad | 12/18/1986 | See Source »

...particular deal now unraveling was cockeyed to begin with and probably illegal. Nevertheless, we may have to deal secretly again. If we are going to play the great power game, and ask others to risk their lives to help us win it, we had best accept the need for sordid secrecy. Or give up the game altogether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: When Secrecy Meets Democracy | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

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