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...serves part time as a volunteer prison worker. According to in camera testimony obtained by the New York Daily News, the psychiatrist described Berkowitz as "ecstatic, radiant, quoting Scripture right and left" after their talks. He also said that Berkowitz saw the guilty plea as a way to confess his "sins" and to avoid stirring up his personal demons again...
Local newspapers bewailed the loss. Then City Representative Joseph LaSala wrote the Philadelphia Inquirer to confess, "I am the ogre who made the decision not to spend $45,000 on this delightful piece of sculpture...
...where Violet's virginity is auctioned off before a crowd of prominent customers. The rest of the girls are waiting downstairs during Violet's initiation. Before long we see the john sneaking out the back door, and the guilt and shame just about step forth from his face and confess. The other girls run up to Violet's room and find her collapsed and apparently unconscious on the bed--brutalized, sodomized, what can it be? We wait. But ha, ha, fooled you"! Violet pops up and scolds them selfish for not coming to her earlier. Shields' is a face that...
Because I saw the play and knew the cast so well, it's hard for me to judge how useful or interesting The Ends of Power will be to the casual reader. I confess that parts of it were hard for me to follow, in spite of my familiarity with the subject. With all its factual inaccuracies, the book does give valid and important insights to anyone interested in the Nixon mystery. Unfortunately, these revelations are unduly restrained and limited in scope...
...must confess, though, that upon hearing the final score, I had to wonder whether this was the same Harvard basketball team I had watched these past few years...