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There were other similarities. As in Stalin's last years, Kremlin iconographers labored to hide the ravages of age and disease. His portraits were meticulously airbrushed to darken his gray hair, to erase his wrinkles, to sharpen his jawline. Sound engineers who monitored his broadcasts used electronic magic to mask his slurred speech, possibly the result of a stroke. The disguises fell through when Brezhnev was placed in the harsh glare of cameras that could not be controlled by party discipline. At his meeting with President Carter in Vienna in June 1979, he stumbled and nearly fell while descending...
Possessing a bachelor's degree from Penn State and a law degree from Villanova, Trumka also becomes the best-educated U.M.W. leader in history, a fact he did not try to hide during the campaign. Overzealous aides even claimed that Trumka is a member of Phi Beta Kappa; they later admitted he is not. Said one Church worker: "Miners don't give a damn whether their president is a Phi Beta Kappa...
When I was 12, all I thought about was hide-and-seek, homework, Nancy Drew books and my dog. My closest passionate encounter involved watching my goldfish produce many more little goldfish...
...known since she didn't attend any subsequent meetings. But more importantly, these people participated as individuals; DSA had no organizational involvement in planning the conference. Now Ms. Wharton can think what she wants about DSA or its members, but it is irresponsible for her to imply that we hide our identity or unfairly influence other organizations. Anyone familiar with DSA knows that such a claim is absurd--DSA members have been involved in the large majority of left-of-center political activities on this campus over the last five years, yet neither we nor the organizations we have been...
While the Senate started off this final two-month stretch playing hide-and-seek with the electorate, the House began by pandering to one of the voters' biggest fears and lowest instincts. Last Tuesday, Massachusetts voters approved by a three-to-two margin a referendum making the death penalty constitutional in the Commonwealth. One week later the representatives spent one afternoon on the matter, and passed the enabling legislation allowing executions. Numerous legislative hearings have been held over the past year, and opponents to capital punishment have dominated the testimony each time, providing multiple studies refuting its effectiveness...