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...mention composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein '39 and cellist Yo-Yo Ma '75, writers John H. Updike '54 and Peter B. Benchley '61, poets T.S. Eliot '10 and George Santayana '99, and a multitude of others...
...regrets having misled readers. Reviewers challenged the reconstructed dialogue in David McClintick's 1982 Hollywood exposé Indecent Exposure, and Don Kowet's A Matter of Honor, an investigation, published this spring, of a CBS documentary about General William Westmoreland. Washington Post Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein used unnamed sources to reconstruct scenes inside the Nixon White House in The Final Days. For Woodward's Wired, however, about Comedian John Belushi, he named sources section by section...
...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...