Word: teller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Undergraduate Council last night unanimously agreed to submit a $24,000 bid to bring the popular comedy and magic act of Penn and Teller to Sanders Theater...
...council's bid includes a $16,000 performance fee for Penn and Teller and two suites at the Charles Hotel for $700--"grease money," according to Malcolm A. Heinicke, the council's vice chair. The hotel expenses, he said, would "make the offer look better on paper...
...conviction that some of the U.S. secrets he stole had reached Moscow, but no one had suggested that Shamir was directly responsible. Hersh first heard this allegation from Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli intelligence officer and veteran spinner of stunning-if-true- but yarns. He was the teller of the October Surprise tale about an alleged 1980 agreement between the Reagan campaign and Iranian officials to delay the release of American hostages until after the U.S. election. Hersh says Ben- Menashe's account was "subsequently amplified by a second Israeli, who cannot be named." This second source asserted...
...Menashe? A lowly translator who never rose above unimportant desk jobs, according to the Israeli government. A teller of "bald-faced lies," says George Bush. A demon peddler of arms by his own account. Seymour Hersh says Ben-Menashe is an expert on signal intelligence who served more than 10 years in the Israeli army and in 1987, so he claims, became an intelligence adviser to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. In mid-1990 he brought his story to Hersh before leaving the U.S. for Australia and a life of exile...
From generation to generation, families wander through clouds of shared images, miasmas of memory, occlusions of oral remembrances. What is recalled of clan history is imprecise, simply because the stories take on shapes imposed by each teller. Sometimes, however, a family will be lucky, and an aunt, an uncle or a cousin will be able to re-create the past with a precision that makes the narrative virtually incontestable, a true copy of what has gone before. That is the nature of Jung Chang's mesmerizing memoir. With a calm that suggests infallibility, she tells the story of her mother...