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Nixon had shown an interest in politics since the age of six, when he began reading news of current events and talking about them with his father. When he was 11, the Teapot Dome scandal prompted him to announce to his mother, "I'll be a lawyer they can't bribe." The practice of law in Whittier was hardly so inspiring. Taken into the firm of a family friend, he spent his first day dusting the books in the office library, then bungled his first case, losing all his client's money in a real estate deal. But he persevered...
...despite the Watergate-like presence of a prosecutor, a round of subpoenas and even the resignation of White House Counsel Bernard W. Nussbaum, the affair is a tempest in a teapot, professors...
...what Edwin Landseer was to their many dogs) must be the single most sentimental piece of kitsch in the palace and accordingly gets more attention from the visitor stream than any Rubens or Rembrandt. Now and again some palace functionary, neatly tailored and with a face like a silver teapot, glides through the crowd; and police murmur discreetly into cellular intercoms. But otherwise it's like being shepherded, en masse, through an empty stage set. Nobody here but us tourists. What you see is what you get. The only domestic trace is a mysterious table in the anteroom...
Most magically, there was a glorious children's theater program at the Hudson Guild, funded by Helena Rubenstein. By age eight, the not-yet Whoopi was hooked. "I could be a princess, a teapot ((she laughs at the memory)), a rabbit, anything. And in a way, it's been children's theater ever since. I've only recently begun believing that I've grown up, and acting is what...
...twitches every few seconds, like someone lost beyond the edge of pain. His younger brother and sister gaze at him, then look quickly away, a fog of panic filling their eyes as they contemplate their mad brother, the gloom of the tent, their possessions reduced to a teapot, a blanket and a few ragged clothes. Omar, their father, clears his throat and volunteers, "The boy, he has been like that since the bombing. He is disturbed, I think...