Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the administration's investigation of the stabbing. During that month, there have been at least two more stabbings, two serious assaults, and one major racial incident involving about 25 inmates. Five state legislators visited Walpole this week and returned convinced that the guards beat prisoners who fail to answer questions, as well as being outraged at the physical conditions of the cells. Prisoners in other blocks in the maximum end tell gruesome tales, like the man who dangled 30 feet from the third tier for refusing to cooperate. Things have been heating up in Walpole's maximum end since...
Television coverage too had much to answer for. It only bore witness to, it did not instigate, Senator Percy's nasty innuendoes about tax evasion by Lance, and Percy's subsequent smarmy retraction. Moreover, TV's steady eye on the hearings produced what no amount of print reporting could do: a dramatic switch of public sympathy to Lance, who, despite the damaging admissions he had to make, carried himself more impressively under relentless scrutiny than any other congressional witness within memory...
Diaries Editor Michael Davie does not presume to answer that question. His job, which he has performed with unobtrusive competence, was to provide concise background, explanations and deletions in accordance with British libel laws and his own sense of decency. Waugh himself was responsible for the most notable omission, the Oxford entries that refer to his undergraduate adventures in homosexuality. There are no diaries to cover his cuckolding and the collapse of his first marriage in 1929. For his hallucinations in 1954, one must refer back to Gilbert Pinfold...
...Pizza Beauty Pageant, a woman reporter asked him: "Is there anything you won't do for money?" "Yes," cracked the President's brother, "but if you proposition me, I'll do it for free." Next question: "How much money are you being paid to be here?" Answer (amiably): "That ain't none of your damned business...
...Billy Carter. However much Billy trades on his independence, he is, after all, the President's brother, and his attraction depends upon that presidential nimbus. Watergate discredited the presidency, but it does not follow that the office therefore deserves to be treated cheaply. ("Cheap, hell!" Billy might answer. "I'm expensive!") Gerald Ford and his family managed to invest the White House with a relaxed kind of dignity during their tenure. They did not try to sell blankets along Pennsylvania Avenue. Billy Carter is hardly subverting the Republic by being tacky, but the psychodrama of his celebrity does...