Word: talese
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Hersh's methods and conclusions have been controversial. He's a volcanic man, one who doesn't flinch at shouting through the phone at a reluctant informant. Hersh has had second thoughts about some of his sources. For his book The Samson Option, about Israel's nuclear-weapons program, he...
As consistent promoters of the pumping, speedy bass drum double kick and almost-too-slick background harmonies, their musical basics are predictable and simple to model, but efforts to duplicate the never-ending barrage of titillating tales are insincere and unoriginal. NOFX always keeps one step ahead of would-be...
I think I was raised the same way my parents were. I learned about America the beautiful, rather than Switzerland the neutral, England the weak or Puerto Rico the dependent. While my grandfather's years in the Civilian Conservation Corps and the American Air Force are still clear in his...
Frank Luntz, a G.O.P. pollster, can already see the 30-second ad in his mind. It opens with ominous music and a deep voice recounting tales of abuse by the Internal Revenue Service. It cuts to images from recent Senate hearings featuring a priest as one of the agency's...
DIED. JAMES MICHENER, 90, prolific and peripatetic author who embarked on a lifelong literary tour of the globe; after taking himself off dialysis; in Austin, Texas. While a Navy lieutenant during World War II, Michener began writing Tales of the South Pacific, a collection of stories that won him the...