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That recent exchange was deceptively benign, an interlude in a harsh running confrontation that seems to be destroying Ziegler's usefulness. Ziegler, 34, has never been popular with White House reporters. Unlike most of his recent predecessors, he had never been a newsman-he was an account executive for J. Walter Thompson, where he met H.R. Haldeman. His friendship with Haldeman and his work on the 1968 Nixon campaign lifted him into the White House...
Richard Nixon is informally on trial for his responsibility in the Watergate scandal. As witnesses parade before the Ervin Committee, spilling their tales of burglary, electronic eavesdropping, forgery and bribery, the public is judging how much Nixon is responsible for the crimes. If the judgement is harsh, he will most likely have to resign, pious pronouncements about the integrity of the presidency notwithstanding...
...does not help Lady Bird to accept her new identity as a widow. The term itself makes her recoil: "I don't like that word-it comes from a Sanskrit word meaning empty. That is a harsh thought." She also cannot quite grasp that Lyndon is irrevocably gone. "The children and I find ourselves still speaking of him in the present tense. And when I'm reading a book, I find myself turning down the corner of a page, the way I always did when I wanted to talk to him about that passage. The worst time...
Guinness's performance is obviously based on a close reading of the sources. The habits are ticked off one by one, amid the slow disintegration of personality: the stiff, corseted movements, the crescendos of temper, the harsh, mesmeric voice grinding out its long postprandial diatribes against traitors, smokers and meat eaters. The words rebound from the elephant-colored walls of the bunker as once they had echoed down the parade grounds of the Third Reich. Hitler's pallid hand, shaking from Dr. Morell's amphetamine capsules, spoons dollops of Schlag onto a slab of chocolate cake...
Caring. For a pretty woman, matrimony puts the highest sort of premium on that view, and the book, naturally, has some harsh words about what even a good marriage does to women. Are there any alternatives? Kate wonders. Probably not, Doris Lessing decides, at least for those women who seem to be born (as well as ingrained) with a sense of caring. Kate is intrigued and provoked, though, by a neighbor -either a mutant monster or the Woman of the Future-who seems to have no sense of responsibility and whose children still seem to have turned out well enough...