Word: tell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tell-it-all books on the Supreme Court may yet become a new publishing genre. Sales of The Brethren, the gossipy, 467-page "inside" look at the high bench by Watergate Sleuth Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong, have soared since it was released by Simon & Schuster in December. Now the court is about to be shaken further by a book that may draw even more attention, if only because it was written by someone who really did have firsthand knowledge of the institution's personalities and practices: Justice William O. Douglas...
Since Playwright Clark has only minimally rewritten the role, the switch from male to female does result in certain dissonances. It is unlikely that a woman would tell a string of off-color jokes or make raunchy remarks to female nurses...
...York Times and Long Island's Newsday, and why? A special federal prosecutor has been named to find out, but evidently he is not going to ask those who know best-NBC, the Times and Newsday-and if asked, they're not likely to tell...
...costs it an estimated $400 million annually in lost sales. Says Joseph Smith, chairman of the board of Elektra/Asylum/Nonesuch Records: "Counterfeiting of records and tapes is getting to be big business. They aren't playing games now. These things are damn good quality. It's hard to tell the imitations even when they come back to us as returns...
...references to Life Change Units and th Social Readjustment Rating Scale, Society Causes of Illness is not easy to read. But it is worthwhile for doctors and patient! Both can be notorious for rushing to the pillbox when alternative methods ar preferable. As Totman points out, any one can tell when he is sick, even a la man. The trick is to determine why, an to treat the nonmicrobial causes of illness as well. - Peter Stoler