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On Tuesday's NYPD Blue (ABC, 10 p.m.), Rick Schroder's tight-lipped character, Danny Sorenson, opens up to Sipowicz while seeking help for an alcoholic friend.
Although the NYT good-naturedly complains that "Universal executives here are almost as tight-lipped as Frankenstein's monster," the paper estimates that the Halloween Horror Nights bring in $11 million in revenues for Universal.
This particular brand of sexual doublespeak has been remarked upon before, most famously by the late French historian Michel Foucault, who, in his History of Sexuality (published in English in 1978), put forth his unexpected "repressive hypothesis": Those supposedly tight-lipped Victorians, in the course of devising rules to regulate sex and the sciences that investigate its perversions, in fact talked and wrote more about sex than anyone before them.
Even the permissive Merriam-Webster III , while remaining tight-lipped about usage, condescends to offer see IMPLY at definition 4 of infer .
The most prominent of the Tight-Lipped, oddly, is Arizona's John McCain, who is never tight-lipped.