Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What will we remember about the Watergate Spring? Banner newspaper headlines daily, introducing new charges and personalities into the scandal. Another maudlin television speech from behind Presidential Seal. John Mitchell, once stern-faced on the ramparts, the hero of Mayday 1971, reduced to a petty criminal, a hang-dog and pathetic figure. The names, a new one every day: Dean, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Kliendienst, Krogh, Barker, Sturgis, Alch, McCord, Liddy, Hunt, Chapin, Caulfield. Piecing together the stories, the leaks and the testimony, waiting for that last link, the one piece of firm evidence: "The president ordered me to do this...
Admittedly, the situation resembles the old Sherlock Holmes solution of a crime because of the curious behavior of the dog in the nighttime - curious because the dog did nothing in the nighttime. The banality of this view of Hitler at ease is the message, as always with home movies. Most of Swastika consists of previously unused material from professional Nazi films, mainly propaganda and newsreel, tightly edited together so as to present the illusion that Mora had sent a documentary team 40 years back into the Reich. The home movies make it seem as though Andy Warhol tagged along...
...terrorized the Giglottos for half an hour. A unique blunder by overzealous investigators trying to crack a narcotics ring? Hardly. A little later the same night in Collinsville, a service station operator, Donald Askew, 40, and his family were about to sit down for a late dinner when their dog began barking frantically. Askew's wife Virginia, 39, was the first to see the man standing outside the open living-room window. "I looked," says Askew, "and the man looked just like my boy, long hair and all. Except he was carrying a short rifle...
Losing to Master Handicapper Riggs, in fact, is almost fun. Depending on the competition, he will play while being tied to his doubles partner, while holding a poodle on a leash ("It's harder if the dog isn't housebroken"), while running around four chairs placed on his side of the court, or wearing an overcoat or carrying a pail of water. One estimate puts Riggs' lifetime betting take at $500,000. Says he: "I'm the best money player ever...
Today Peter Reich lives in a rented farmhouse in Vermont with his cats, dog, a "companion-wife" and a few reminders of childhood. There are his father's prison letters, some photographs, including a closely guarded one of himself at age eleven, standing proudly in a cowboy hat beneath the cloudbuster. There is an old, well-kept Winchester carbine that his father, who was fond of guns, gave him. There is also an orgone blanket. Roughly 2 ft. by 3 ft., it is simply a layer of natural wool backed with steel wool that is kept in place...