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...money to the burglars and knew that this could be an obstruction of justice; 3) plotted to first make Magruder and Mitchell, then Dean, the scapegoats so as to save himself. Even many of the transcripts released by the White House last April in a televised profession of belated candor were revealed by the playing of the tapes to have been edited to omit the most damaging statements and thus continue the coverup...
...tragic, mutually destructive marriage with a blonde stripper. It whispers that they were into heavy drugs and that he was forcing her into kinky sex long before the public or the cops took any notice of him. But the film does not explore this material with anything like the candor of Albert Goldman's recent biography...
Brown, 56, a former bomber pilot, is known for firm opinions and candor in expressing them. His troubles originated at a student forum at Duke University Law School on Oct. 10. During a 40-minute period of questions and answers in the student lounge, he was asked if the U.S. had considered using force against oil-producing nations in the Middle East. "I don't know," he said, responding rather cautiously at first. "I hope not. We have no plans...
...outline for the first series was based partly on the stories of Eileen's parents, an underbutler and a needlewoman in the Edwardian era, and partly by Jean's reading preferences. She wanted the servants to talk with the uncontaminated candor of Ivy Compton-Burnett's oracular children. The close, conspiratorial relationship between Rose and Sarah, the rebel maid, was inspired by the two maids in Henry Green's novel Loving (belowstairs in a country house). Remembering how one of those maids found her mistress in bed with a lover, Jean says: "I always wanted...
...Bill, has always been research; and this quasi-scientific model demands a candor about means and ends in each painting or sculpture. Every painting of Bill's is in some way a demonstration of its own making. There are no "occult" design systems; everything can be deduced from a simple grid and from serial repetition. So in Construction from a Theme from 1946 (1967), the five main colors make their appearance in turn: first a stripe of blue pushing out the black at the top, then a lavender stripe displacing the blue at the left, then a red behind...