Word: things
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keep his job so he wouldn't get wise to their probe. Still, it was not until after Lee's dismissal from Los Alamos that anyone managed to check what was on his computer. As more details have emerged, it has sometimes seemed that the only thing more breathtaking than Lee's alleged deceit was how long the government took to ferret...
...also likely to face charges of elevating politics and commercial interests over national security. After White House stonewalling on two other China-related investigations (the fund raising and the technology transfers), Republicans will assume the worst about the Lee case. Says Republican Senator Richard Lugar: "This kind of thing is grist for the mill for endless investigations." With an election year coming up, Wen Ho Lee may prove to be the most dangerous man for Democrats on the campaign trail...
...playwrights, no float-out-of-the-theater magic. Some days that may be true. But last Monday a few dozen eminences from movies, TV and even the stage convened at the Broadhurst Theatre for a little old-fashioned dazzle. The occasion was a benefit called "The Playwright's the Thing," an evening of skits and play excerpts by three superb American comic dramatists: Christopher Durang, Terrence McNally and Wendy Wasserstein. The event, of which TIME was the presenting sponsor, raised money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, a charity that helps theater people with AIDS. The evening also raised the spirits...
...arts have no shortage of fund-raising schemes; in a McNally skit not performed last week, a harried patroness dashes off to a Disabled Modern Dancers' Luncheon. But giving needn't be an ordeal. "The Playwright's the Thing" proved that when Broadway has a good cause, it can have a great effect. And it can inspire as it entertains. In the evening's most indelible turn, Debra Monk played a New Yorker crisscrossing the border of reason and madness. She takes comfort in the poet Thomas Gray's line: "laughing wild amidst severest woe." For those in the audience...
...realize that rock 'n' roll, which she sings, is the devil's music, or that Roman Catholicism, in which she was recently ordained by a rebel sect, does not allow women in the clergy. Come to think of it, O'Connor doesn't seem to get this whole religion thing at all. Last week the woman who in 1992 tore up a picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live became the first female priest in the Latin Tridentine Church, a Roman Catholic splinter group. Days before the ordination in Lourdes, France, O'Connor, a twice-married mother...