Deep Throat (1974)

Wed Jun 1 22:20:45 UTC 2005

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-Wilson Gray

On Jun 1, 2005, at 1:10 AM, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

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> DEEP THROAT
> ...
> "Deep Throat" was revealed yesterday. It had long been suspected that
> this =20
> was the guy. OED needs to update its "deep throat."
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> (OED)
> _deep  throat_, a person working within an  organization who
> supplies=20
> anonymously information concerning misconduct by other  members of the
> organ=
> ization;=20
> orig. applied (with capital initials) to the  principal informant in
> the=20
> _WATERGATE_=20
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> Nzorl-990&control_no=3D50059209&result_place=3D3&xrefword=3DWatergate)
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> scandal [after a pornographic film (1972) so titled];
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> [1973 National Rev. (U.S.) 22 June 697/2 So you want to write a=20
> best-seller... Well, for starters, how  about the hijacking bit?..
> Character=
> s? Mafia and=20
> Deep Throat types are winners this season.] 1974 Time 22 Apr. 55/1
> Foremost=20
> among  their key sources was a man whom the authors still
> tantalizingly refu=
> se to=20
> name.  They called him =E2=80=98*Deep  Throat=E2=80=99, and report
> only that=
>  he was a =20
> pre-Watergate friend of Woodward's, with =E2=80=98extremely
> sensitive=E2=80=
> =99 antennae. 1974=20
> _BERNSTEIN_
> (http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-b2.html#bernstein)  &=20
> _WOODWARD_ (http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-w3.html#woodward)
> in Pl=
> ayboy May=20
> 218/2 In newspaper terminology, this meant the discussions were on
> =E2=80=
> =98deep=20
> background=E2=80=99. Woodward explained the arrangements to managing
> editor=20=
> Howard  Simons=20
> one day. He had taken to calling the source =E2=80=98my
> friend=E2=80=99, but=
>  Simons  dubbed=20
> him =E2=80=98Deep  Throat=E2=80=99. The name stuck. 1982 Times 3 Nov.
> 1 A fr=
> esh threat of =20
> industrial action emerged last night after the publication of
> documents leak=
> ed =20
> by a =E2=80=98deep throat=E2=80=99 in the National Coal Board.
> ...
> ...
> (PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS) ("deep throat" +  "Watergate")
>      1. _Death  Sentence for the Movies?; Movies " One imagines the
> American=
> =20
> public  choking on the hundredth consecutive re-release of 'Gone With
> the=20
> Wind.'"  _=20
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> By ALLEN McKEE. New  York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.:
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> 1973. p. 95  (1 page)=20
> 2. _Of  Verse, Shadows And Votes_=20
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> The Washington Post  (1974-Current file). Washington, D.C.: Feb 2,
> 1974. p.=20
> B2 (1 page) =20
> 3. _Sloan  named as Watergate tipster_=20
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> Chicago Tribune  (1963-Current file). Chicago, Ill.: Apr 8, 1974. p. 3
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> page)=20
> 4. _Hugh  Sloan Called Major Source for News Articles on Watergate_=20
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> New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Apr  8, 1974. p.
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> page)=20
> 5. _Float  with Joyce thru Watergate_=20
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> William Safire.  Chicago Tribune (1963-Current file). Chicago,  Ill.:
> Apr 24=
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> 1974. p. 24 (1 page)=20
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> OT: JUNE 1ST
> ...
> I've been trying to tell Mayor Bloomberg and the  Republican Party
> just=20
> what's at stake here today.  It's the entire future  of New York City.
> ...
> Either I run for Manhattan Borough President, and they  help me, and
> they=20
> finally honor the African American who called New York City  "the Big
> Apple,=
> " and=20
> they finally Audrey Munson (our "Civic Fame" model), and I  run on
> "Free=20
> wifi! Free toilets! Free speech!" (my councilwoman wants to get rid
> of all=20=
> the=20
> newspaper boxes for the Village Voice and New York Press), and we get
> a Wes=
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> Side stadium, the Olympics, and the Super Bowl, or..
> ...
> ...I do parking tickets in the room with no air, and  book a cooking
> tour of=
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> Sicily.
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> (My sister favors  Sicily.)
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