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...under the glare of investigations, Beebe's roof began to cave in. He was convicted in 1985 of defrauding the Small Business Administration on a loan it made to finance a nursing home from which Beebe allegedly profited. Beebe was sentenced to perform community service, while some of his associates were acquitted. Two years later, the Government accused him of fraud for making loans to a quarter-horse breeder with whom Beebe allegedly held an interest in a tax-shelter scheme. After the 1987 mistrial, Beebe pleaded guilty last year to the two fraud counts...
Like many skilled writers, she sacrifices balance for effects. This is acceptable, even necessary, in fiction. But in a memoir whose purpose is to expose one's own family in the glare of a social ideology, the practice seems simplistic and self-serving. There is, for example, her use of the familiar tale about the founding of the Bingham fortune. Grandfather Robert, "the Judge," bought into Louisville publishing with money from the estate of Mary Lily Flagler, his second wife. The Judge was rumored to have killed Mary Lily, but there was never any evidence that would support a criminal...
...Right now we're better than the two clubs I went to the Final Four with," said Bourbeau, bathed in the glare of television lights in Harvard's locker room last night...
...stood before the cameras in his own drawing room, his eyes heavy with fatigue and his voice contrite. For 27 minutes in the full glare of national television, Korea's former President, Chun Doo Hwan, apologized abjectly to his countrymen for the crimes he committed during 7 1/2 years in power. Before retreating with his wife to a Buddhist monastery, Chun promised to surrender his house, a skiing condominium, two golf-club memberships and at least $3.3 million to the government...
Clutching the TV clicker fiercly, I told my sister that the late night showing of "Heidi" (her old favorite) was forbidden; Letterman would stay. Immediately I could tell from her glare that neither Heidi nor Dave would be tuned in and that I was supposed to go upstairs to my bedroom a.k.a. study...