Word: umbrellas
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Simon got the idea for The Capeman nearly a decade ago, recalling a famous crime from his New York City childhood. Agron and an accomplice--dubbed the Capeman and the Umbrella Man because witnesses identified them by those accoutrements--made tabloid headlines, feeding the public's fears of juvenile delinquency and gang violence. At 16, Agron became the youngest person ever to receive the death penalty in New York State, a sentence that was later commuted to life imprisonment. In prison, Agron educated himself, began writing poetry and left-wing political tracts and became a cause celebre for liberal intellectuals...
...most. After the Lehrer interview (and three more guarded press encounters), and for four agonizing days, the President said nothing. Mike McCurry, his likeable press secretary, said nothing. The President is talking only to his lawyers (led by the very dislikeable Robert Bennett) and to Hillary, under the umbrella of confidentiality. Most alarmingly, until Monday, he was not talking...
...addition, Summer said the group will devote a lot of its energy toward developing the groups under its umbrella...
According to Krinsky, the group's outgoing technical liaison, the HRDC executive board "acts as the production organization for the Loeb." In addition to it's work with the Loeb, the group also serves as "an umbrella organization for theater in general," according to Connery, who is the the group's current vice-president...
...boycott defenders included campus groups such as RAZA, a Mexican-American/Chicano/Latino student organization; the Progressive Student Labor Movement; and UNITE, an umbrella organization for undergraduate activists...