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...that Dean had told him on March 21 that the cash was meant to buy the silence of the lowly burglars?which Nixon admitted was a criminal act. After a week of silence on the topic, Nixon made an attempt to bridge that direct conflict and it was a lame one. Dean, he said, had just "alleged" that the money was used to keep the men quiet. This third Nixon version of the conversation was meant to clear him of any charge that he had known of a crime and done nothing about...
...Flaminio's perfect typecasting, from his refusal to recognize her private soul. But the plot does not allow time for her to develop potential feelings of self-worth that can replace an identity culled from the glory of the stage. Instead, her memoir trails off in confusion, with a lame admission to Flamino that "I myself was never quite sure just when we were acting...
...touting them all, Schonberg strains his expletives and his description. Steinitz, "born lame, heroic above the torso and a cripple below... had a grudge against the world, and the world returned it." Pillsbury "was genuinely admired as a human being as well as one of the chess geniuses...
...trade unions allowed the government to carry out its "lame duck" policy, by which Heath decided not to support industries in debt no matter how important they were to an industrial region, the gap would now be a yawning chasm. As it was, the trade union activists--so hated by Heath--managed to keep some industries open by the strength of their protests. In spite of this success, the unions have had a terribly difficult time with a government that sees labor as fulfilling a profit function rather than a social function...
...Star Walt Frazier in a bold red and white blazer, Actor Jack Nicholson in loud pin stripes, Barbra Streisand in a sombrero, plus Senators Edward Kennedy and John Tunney in mufti. Ali Partisan John Kennedy Jr., in a blazer, escorted his aunt Lee Radziwill, in black and gold striped lame, to a ringside seat after exchanging gentle warmup jabs with the fighter in his dressing room. Then he snapped the action with his Nikon. And after Ali had shrewdly outpointed Frazier in twelve rounds, he gave John a unique trophy: his bloodstained trunks...