Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was newly inaugurated Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso off in Washington to tape a talk show, while her home in Windsor Locks, an industrial town, was being robbed. Thieves broke into Mrs. Grasso's six-room house and stole her mother's engagement ring, her own engagement ring, silver and watches "Now I'm a statistic, and I'm as angry and outraged as any other householder," was Ella's reaction. Still, she rejected a proposal for a fence. Said the Governor philosophically: "I don't like fences. They keep the people...
...role was Sicilian to its mol ten core, he spent six weeks in Sicily mastering not only the regional dialect but a specific local variant. Challenged to play the young immigrant who would become the Godfather already denned by Marlon Brando, De Niro armed himself with a video tape of Brando's performance. "I didn't want to do an imitation, but I want ed to make it believable that I could be him as a young man. I would see some little movements that he would do and try to link them with my performance...
...convict four former officials of the Nixon Administration-John Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and Robert Mardian-in that trial. Former Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski believes, in fact, that the testimony of such lower-level members of the conspiracy, plus the celebrated March 21, 1973 "cancer on the presidency" tape, would have produced the convictions even without the subsequent tapes secured at the direction of the U.S. Supreme Court...
This is a tape used in the photo...
...drift over the years to an all-powerful presidency. The tremendous power that has been marshaled in the White House pervades all who work there, resulting in an inability to put things in perspective. I think one of Haldeman's lines on the tape explains it better than anything. He was talking with Nixon when things were coming apart, and he said: "It was done for a higher good...