Word: talese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The theatrical experience he has fashioned is part religious pageant, part sermon, part military panoply and part celebration of the reverberant power of language -- of vows, of curses, of omens. Above all it glories in the eternal reign of the storyteller, whose chronicles outlast the might of the captains and...
Dugas' identity as the peripatetic Patient Zero was confirmed last week by Professor Marcus Conant of the University of California at San Francisco, a pioneer AIDS researcher. But, Conant adds, "if it hadn't been this man, it would have been some other." Dugas' escapades are just one of many...
Almost untouchable on his corporate throne, Ford was perhaps the most secure executive in America. A biographer once told him that his book would give Ford the chance to set the record straight about many things. Snapped Ford: "Oh, let the fairy tales continue. Who gives a damn?" His most...
The controversy over Casey's deathbed interview was just one of several that swirled last week around Woodward's book. In chronicling Casey's six-year tenure as the nation's chief intelligence officer, which ended with his resignation and death earlier this year, Woodward provides new details about a...
But all fairy tales do have happy endings and all students, even freshmen, eventually become legal.