Word: throat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Woodward and their City Editor), or at worst, men divided in their loyalties--the bookkeeper for Maurice Stans interviewed in her home, Hugh Sloan who resigns under his wife's threat to leave him if he doesn't ship out of CREEP, and most important of all, Deep Throat himself. The Watergate Five appear only as silhouettes, Hunt and Liddy not at all. Donald Segretti comes off as pathetic and sophomoric rather than a pernicious master of dirty tricks. The heavies--Haldeman, Ehrlichmann, Colson, Kleindienst, Magruder and of course Nixon--aren't there at all, except in the news clips...
...know how much these men are driven by personal ambition, how much by moral vigor, how much by pure thrill of the chase. Do they even like each other? They never discuss the wider significance of the case or their handling of it, only tactics and never strategy. Deep Throat provides some of the comments that put events in context, but the film really tells us little about whether or not Woodward and Bernstein had to be extraordinary men to do what they did, or simply extraordinary reporters...
...piece of evidence, part of one of those long, fascinating congressional hearings. Thus the climax of All The President's Men is reduced to the moral decision of one man, and the focus of suspense comes down to the instant of silence in a darkened underground garage when Deep Throat decides the time has come to tell all he knows...
...legs. Ivan "the Russian Bear" Koloff advances menacingly, his bald head and tattooed arms proclaiming unredeemable evil. With the 18-foot chain that binds them together, Koloff begins to strangle the World Champion of the east coast. He twists the Russian chain elaborately around Bruno's powerful throat...
...issue as far as the Lebanese Christians are concerned; they resented the fact that the 320,000 Palestinians living in Lebanon had so much power. Beyond that, Washington has not had its top representative in Beirut since January: Ambassador G. McMurtrie Godley is on sick leave recovering from a throat cancer operation. But last week the State Department summoned L. Dean Brown, 55, a highly regarded Arabist, out of retirement to troubleshoot in the beleaguered city...