Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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During and after the debate, Reagan was derided by Connally, who cracked: "I guess I don't know much about Reagan's positions because you can't get much on the three-by-five cards that he has used for decades to make speech notes." Reagan shot back later: "[Connally] must have been living under a rock." Reagan, 68, brushed aside questions about his age. One retort: "I'm really not that old. They mixed up the babies at the hospital...
...over at least 15 belonging to Texaco, Mobil, Exxon and others. The companies store gasoline and oil in Greenpoint, a factory area in Brooklyn where the barges come up Newtown Creek and unload. The gas is trucked around New York City, and it does not take a genius to know that the trucks all have to take the same main roads...
...fooled and refused to answer her questions.) More invidious are the payoffs that have long been a part of gossip journalism. Typically, a bartender or maitre d' will be paid $25 to $50 for a story tip, and a publicity agent or someone else in the know will get a couple of hundred dollars for confirmation. Says Paul Corkery, a former Enquirer reporter and now an editor at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner: "One thing I liked is that it is the last refuge of scoundrels. You do anything to get the story...
...failure to make it as an anchorwoman competing with Barbara Walters was mostly the fault of a top CBS producer, whom she names, because she refused to sleep with him. Did Quinn think Brzezinski was making a serious proposal to her? She now says, "Well, I don't know frankly. The first time he said it I was really shocked. I laughed nervously and tried to change the subject. The second time I thought it a clumsy joke...
...slow motion, but in reverse. That is what Harold Pinter has done in depicting an adulterous love affair. It is over in the first of nine scenes, and it begins just before the curtain drops. This is a clever conceit. Pinter, as we have much past reason to know, cannot write a wrong line-or a dull pause. The key actors, Raul Julia, Blythe Banner and Roy Scheider, are marvels of professional finesse, and Peter Hall's direction is ticktock perfect in its precision...