Word: yes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sections: Yes. A friend of mine revealed to me, in confidence, her secret strategy for luring the most eligible bachelors in her sections into asking her for dates. Apparently she deliberately sits opposite the Don Juan of the moment and stares mercilessly at his forehead for the entire hour. She claims this plan has worked for her on at least three separate occasions and vows to go for number four when she gets off academic probation...
Will Bert somehow succeed in his quest for stardom? Yes. In a nice manageable sort of way. As his autobiographical Enter Laughing shows, Reiner has always believed that show biz is a circle more charmed than vicious, that . its most characteristic derangement is a sort of addled innocence. In Lindsay, star of the London-Broadway hit Me and My Girl, Reiner has found a perfect, gently insinuating instrument. Together they have created a sweet anachronistic counterpoint to the depressing hubbub of today's celebrity world...
...Yes, Virginia, there will be an Ollie North trial. Or at least one will start this week. But don't bet the ranch that it will go all the way to a jury verdict, or even produce much dramatic testimony...
...deal allowing a sanitized version of the document to be introduced. If they succeed, the trial resumes; if not, the proceedings are halted while Attorney General Dick Thornburgh considers whether the document can be declassified. If Thornburgh says no, the trial could end. If the answer is yes, the proceedings continue but are broken again by the same sequence the next day, and twice the following week, and so on. It becomes precisely the "cuckoo-clock trial" (interrupted every hour) that Gesell has long publicly feared...
...prosecution into falsely implying that one of its witnesses lied. That could be the price of keeping secret a document proving that the witness had told the truth. "Is that what you're suggesting?" the judge asked a Justice Department attorney. The answer, in effect: well . . . er . . . uh . . . yes...