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The White House tactic will be a "choke-them-with-candor operation," contended one senior presidential aide, in an unwitting reminder of the Nixon White House's deceitful "Operation Candor," launched as a desperate Watergate defense. But if the Republicans really want to "raise memories of things gone by...
The Waverly owes its existence, in a sense, to two highly unlikely and unwitting patrons: Arthur Godfrey and an unmusical Greenwich Village landlord. It was Godfrey's ukulele playing that first prompted Jaffee, a furrier's son, to begin strumming the guitar as a boy in Brooklyn. Later...
Some journalists felt they were being treated much better by the voters than by the candidates. Ronald Reagan used 150 news people on hand for a rally as unwitting bit players in a paid campaign broadcast. John Connally dragged a busload of reporters on a tightly programmed 40-hour tour...
As audiences have changed, so have the mechanics of auctioneering. Twenty years ago, salesrooms were decorous, dusty-and dull. They were frequented mostly by dealers or agents for anonymous collectors. Save for the hobbyist or scholar who might attend a sale of arms and armor or rare folios, amateurs seldom...
There were no separate peaces. Only nightly shards of instruments lying on the floor of the stage like jigsaw fragments. "We're always trying to outdo each other onstage," Daltrey says. "All of us are a bit mad. We've stayed together for 15 years because we've never stopped...