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...newspaper and newsmagazine reporters, savoring every rumor, fact, suspicion and information from a reliable source with regard to the dilemma faced by the present Administration, it occurs to me that there has not been this much anticipatory chop licking since Daniel spent an uncomfortable afternoon in the lions' den...
...dialogue built around an idiom of cliches, and so laid himself open to charges of amateurishness. But there is nothing naive about the feeling for conditioned response and social context in the characterizations here. Scorsese, Robert de Niro and others give the streets a searing energy, a rat's den's sense of confinement, that drives people to self-destruct. The whole surface of this picture quivers with a violence on the edge of explosion...
Like millions of armchair sportsmen, Robert L. Martin spent the final Sunday of 1973 in front of his TV set. Ensconced in the den of his Las Vegas home, he watched the Minnesota Vikings systematically destroy the Dallas Cowboys. Then he switched channels to see the Miami Dolphins take apart the Oakland Raiders. Unlike his fellow fans, though, Martin was actually hard at work all the time he was staring at the tube. Soon after the final gun sounded, he received a call from the Churchill Downs bookie parlor across town and announced his initial betting line for the Super...
...close association with the judge. "Sirica has always been accessible to newsmen," Beckwith says, "but he has a highly developed sense of decorum, and is well respected by the press for his discretion." Beckwith spent hours with the judge: in his chambers, in his car and in his den at home. Says Beckwith, who graduated from the University of Texas Law School in 1971, "My legal background helped me to appreciate the technical complexity of the issues handled by Judge Sirica through the year...
...Steven, 17, and Susan, 16-has fallen on Betty. Ford averaged 200 out-of-town speeches a year and often had to work late at the Capitol. Fortunately for the family, his wife prefers her children and community activities to politicking. She has served as a Cub Scout den mother, a Sunday school teacher and head of the local cancer fund drive. One year she had children in three different schools and made a point of attending meetings of all three Parent-Teacher associations...