Word: insists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both Tait and Mohr insist that there is nothing improper in their relationship. Their associates add that both "are cooperating fully" in the second investigation. However, Tail's firm will no longer function as an FBI "cutout" until the investigation is completed. Justice Department officials are now hoping that the new investigation may prompt Kelley to take a long step toward completing the housecleaning that began after J. Edgar Hoover's death...
...making her own rounds with her own escorts, and by 1971, stories of an imminent split-up were rife. The split was headed off only, acquaintances insist, because the Queen intervened and urged Margaret and Tony to go their own ways as discreetly as possible. Friends found that entertaining the two, when they did get together, could be painful. Margaret had become especially fond of gin-and-tonics. She would at times airily ignore Tony. When he invited guests to Kensington Palace, she would breeze through the room, stopping long enough only to cast a chill on the festivities...
...shared obsession is probably responsible for sustaining the relationship between Redford and Pakula through the strains that were to develop after shooting began. Pakula is a painstaking director, capable of talking out a scene for hours before putting it in front of the camera. Then his habit is to insist on endless retakes, covering every nuance his actors develop as they rework a scene, giving himself every imaginable option once he takes the film into the cutting room. Redford is an actor who does not find a character through ratiocination or conversation, but rather by getting as quickly as possible...
...insist the case is not hopeless. Slight drafts of humility, heroically downed at an unguarded moment, can save Vidal still...
...pieces or stadia, winter rowing seems to spell misery for those stout-hearted souls who insist on outlasting the ice on the Charles River. "You always think of quitting in the winter," four-year oarswoman Roxanne Malenbaum said, "and I'm not sure why I don't, because I can't tell you I love...