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...Teapot Dome scandal of 1923, Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall and Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty were charged with crimes after leaving office. So were three Nixon Administration officials in the Watergate period: Attorney General John Mitchell, Attorney General Richard Kleindienst and Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans...
...films replace inner lives with interior decoration
...great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration, searches for the armoire or settee that can serve as the objective correlative for a character's unspoken, perhaps dramatically unspeakable, fears and fancies. One may therefore wish to approach Swann in Love or The Bostonians undemandingly, almost as one would an antique show, browsing and ruminative but not expecting to make powerful emotional connections with the objects...
Fire charred the paint job and gutted the interior of the white 1974 Buick Regal sedan, which was parked on Flagg St. between Mather tower and Peabody Terrace. No injuries were reported...
...stood together to challenge proposals of Presidents Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon and Carter. In 1965, the U.S. Conference of Mayors expressed opposition to President Johnson's proposal to move water pollution programs from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, where mayors were pleased with its administration, to the Interior Department, where its urban orientation might be lost. The President called Mayor Daley, Chicago's powerful political leader, and asked him to tell me, the lobbyist for the nation's larger cities, to back off. The mayor refused the President's request. Again, in January 1979, when President Carter...