Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Squeaky Fromme was also accustomed to using the language of violence. Good was with her in late July when she told a journalist−who insists upon anonymity−that Ford, the creation of Nixon, "would have to pay for what he's doing. Ford is picking up in Nixon's footsteps and he is just as bad." Part of the interview took place in a local cemetery because the girls said they "identified" with the dead. When the newsman asked for more time to talk, Fromme said darkly, "This is nothing to the interview you will...
...pervasive violence terrifies those who have even minimal contact with the family. After conducting a few interviews, at least one journalist has simply given up writing about the group out of cold fear, and, for the same reason, a California photographer will not let newspapers that print her pictures of the group credit them to her. Since Manson's trial and imprisonment, a Manson cult of sorts has sprung up, making instant myth of his life of violence. A play by David Rabe, The Orphan, tried, with notable lack of success, to portray Manson as misunderstood victim, oracle...
...Brattleboro, Vt., who became a friend of Cecil Rhodes and the enemy of every Liberal Member of Parliament, regularly depicted in Kipling stories as grossly fat, loose-lipped and emitting sprays of saliva. And above all, there was Kipling the young star, who, after seven years as a journalist in India, dazzled London in 1890 at the age of 24. This is the Kipling who in one astounding year wrote most of his Barrack-Room Ballads, the novel The Light That Failed and seven short stories...
Other friendships were more intimate. Well into her 40s, Edith met Morton Fullerton, an American journalist in Paris, who finally unlocked her sexual passion. Fullerton, who seems to have been irresistible to both sexes, later hinted that he taught a very willing partner his many tricks. Edith was never again shy about sex. In her old age she even tried her hand at writing pornography in a never published story of father-daughter incest entitled Beatrice Palmato...
...account is to be believed, the disaster was probably worst of all for Sally Quinn; the embarrassment certainly was. But now back with the Post, she has regained her stature as a journalist, and she seems far away from her self-described nightmare at CBS. For her part, she contends that it was "a good experience...