Word: secrets
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...forthing, one that forestalls certain disclosures without seeming excessively calculating or coy. As the years pass on the farm and in the small village nearby--the Great Depression in the outside world is manifested here only as collapsing milk prices--the hope arises that maybe there was no dark secret about Mattie's death or that the ripples from that long-ago drowning have grown still at last. And that may be Drowning Ruth's most artful illusion...
...Caracas next month for their first meeting in 25 years to firm up their unity. After all, the cartel is effective only as long as all its members avoid the temptation to cheat on their production quotas by pumping extra barrels. In the process, Chavez is making no secret of his confrontational attitude to Washington's interventions - on Tuesday he urged OPEC members to resist outside pressure to lower prices...
...convention at Los Angeles' Staples Center arena. This week on the floor, just when the delegates and the dozen or so TV viewers least expect it, Joseph Lieberman will surprise everyone by introducing Al Gore's real running mate and Malibu's best-kept secret: Elvis Presley, alive and well and surprisingly trim due to daily tennis matches with his neighbor, Johnny Carson...
Mary Cheney isn't a gay activist. But until May, she worked for Coors Brewing Co. as liaison to the gay community, and she gave buckets of the brewer's money to gay causes. ("She was one of our secret weapons in terms of donations," an activist said.) She traveled the country defending the company at meetings of gay radicals who oppose the G.O.P. politics of the Coors family. "Coors has come a long way," she told a gay paper in 1998. "It's a company that really listened...
...schtick? Joe, I said, had a secret: His real name is Joseph Larchmont and he's a WASP from Old Lyme. Why did he parade around as an orthodox Jew, I asked? Because Connecticut's politics were already filled with preppies, either authentic WASPs like the Bushes or near WASPs like the Buckleys. To get ahead in the Nutmeg State, you needed an ethnic angle. This meant that he had to pose as a Jew. After a day of running around in his Jewish pose, complete with Yiddishisms and a rabbinical demeanor, he'd come home each night...