Word: bernsteining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been to illustrate the seamy underside of Washington rather than Hollywood--nobody would have said anything. The backroom deals, the corruption, the slime of Captial Hill, i.e., the stuff that made Woodward big-time--that's okay for public consumption, the more so since Woodward and sidekick Carl Bernstein took that gloss off politicos for good with their reporting on Watergate in the early 1970s...
...book is written in the novel-like, no-attribution form that Woodward and Bernstein did much to popularize--and for which they took much flak--in The Final Days, their account of the end of the Nixon Administration. As American Lawyer editor Steven Brill has written, the style irritates formalist journalists who cringe if no "he recalled" or "she added" appears after an incident...
...hockey team's hot streak, culminating in a second place NCAA finish in 1983, generated the most electricity. Andrew A. Bernstein recalls the first sign of success the Beanpot victory of 1981. "The Harvard band played on the subway on the way back. People did not want to let people on who were not from Harvard because they wanted to sing Harvard songs...
...Courts building in Manhattan. According to The Harvard Crimson, friends described Neumann as "cheerful, outgoing and laid back," although he had been depressed for a few days before leaving for New York. He often traveled to New York to engage in meditation sessions with Sri Chinmoy, of whom Leonard Bernstein had written: "What power is in this man's music. My spirit is very, very deeply impressed." A security guard at Adams House, Robert McLaughlin, who himself became despondent when John Neuman took his life, has told me again and again how giving and caring John was. He tried...
...arrived in droves, finding code violations on almost every shelf. Choi, no chump, halted his renovation plans, complied with each building ordinance and applied to the city landmarks preservation commission for permission to keep his new awning. Then the underdog syndrome took over. While Choi started getting fan letters, Bernstein got 60 obscene phone calls. A writer from Gourmet magazine called her a snob. Customers like a little cause célèbre with then-caviar. Maybe it wasn't such a bad idea after...