Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those who want the plain, unvarnished truth. But truth has its own complexity. Even in the most straight-arrow precincts of journalism-in newspaper city rooms, newsmagazine offices and television newsrooms, where facts are regarded as the inviolable raw material-it is recognized that facts don't speak for themselves. Note how all the professionals refer to their own necessary pattycaking of an event into narrative shape giving it emphasis and a beginning, middle and end, as a story...
...this time around, yup, this is for Joe. His ballgame, so to speak. The preseason predictions, you see, they got Harvard picked for third and fourth, so nobody'll be watching ol' Joe and his boys just yet. But you just wait, and remember two years ago, and if come the Dartmouth game, if Harvard ain't up there causin' trouble, then you can just say you never spoke...
...remember, don't you go tell nobody that you spoke to me, 'cuz if Joe finds out he'll get all huffy and puffy and he might never speak to me no more, O.K.? But come November, and Harvard's up there fighting for the title, and then later, when they win, you remember you just remember what I told you here today. You just remember that you heard it here first, that Harvard's gonna win it all this year...
Admittedly tailored for Russell, the role of Robin Turner suits him to a tee. Impersonating famous actresses comes naturally to a man born to have been a woman, and Russell's next starring role will be more telling about his future as a leading man, so to speak. Russell will have to be selective about his roles in coming months if he wishes to avoid the typecast stigma...
...talks began that afternoon at a long wooden table in the Great Hall of the People. Vance was literally the only person to speak for almost 2½ hours, while Foreign Minister Huang sat impassively and other Chinese officials scribbled notes but asked no questions. Vance talked only about international affairs, emphasizing the areas in which Washington and Peking had common interests, but postponing the matter of Taiwan. That night, at a deliberately low-keyed banquet, Huang noted in a gloomy toast that there were "still problems" between the two countries...