Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book denies some things, it remembers all -- helpful if you are forever on display and on trial. In vivid detail (Mussolini looks "like a Caruso in uniform"), the book unfolds with the archetypal figures and engorged emotions of silent films ("You must be my mistress," Goebbels implores; "I need you -- without you my life is a torment!"). A fascinating political and personal history, the book could make an enthralling movie...
Perhaps the biggest public embarassment for Murphy, however, was the special detail he ran to protect Saudi Prince Turki bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud during His Highness' three-month stay on the top two floors of the Charles Hotel...
...police detail was paid approximately $27,000 a week to guard the prince, according to a Crimson estimate at the time. And two department sources said then that the police department's criminal investigation division, which was then directed by Murphy, was depleted by the commitment required for the detail. Several members of the investigation unit were part of the detail...
Murphy, who the prince reportedly referred to as "Uncle Larry," took vacation time to help work on the lucrative detail. Sources say Murphy received a "substantial gift" from the prince at the end of his stay...
...mothers, for their part, are mystified by their daughters' seemingly ungrateful attitudes, shaking their heads with regret. What the daughters don't know are the dark secrets of the past that the mothers keep inside, which haunt them in the film in excruciating detail. One by one, the mothers reveal their scars to their daughters, who draw strength from their mothers' catharses and finally realize the full extent of their love. After years of self-doubt, they feel acceptance...