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...with Richard Nixon a political four letter word and investigative the only proper prefix to reporting, Bob Woodward, the reporter, became readily interchangeable with Bob Redford, the actor cum social activist who portrayed our hero in All the President's Men. Running from interview to interview, rendezvousing with "deep throat" in D.C. parking garages, Bob Woodward Redford seemed like a hyped-up, race car driver in some charity benefit for the good old public right-to-know...
...throat-clearing chore of drafting a platform was complete, and the rafter-reaching speeches were about to begin. Inside the cavernous Dallas Convention Center, workmen folded down the last bright red cushion of the hall's 17,000 seats, providing a telegenic color complement to the acres of blue carpeting. VIPS began slipping into town, ferried between meetings in stretch limousines, some with real Texas longhorns protruding from their hoods. The blast-furnace August climate was performing on cue, with temperatures reaching the 100° mark. But the Big D's air-conditioned interiors were frigid enough to give a reasonable...
...Cubicles line the walls, at one point breaking the room's otherwise roaring with glee. Buckner's locker is situated at the center of the room and as he pranced about, I noticed a pile of stills on his stool. He has an uncanny resemblance to photographs of Deep Throat's Harry Reems Buckner would autograph them when he found the time...
...Olympic spirit does not prevent rival boxers from occasionally saluting each other, just in passing, with a universal smile and an expressive forefinger dragged meaningfully across the throat...
...previous warning. Fixx, however, appears to have had some warning signals. A few days before his death, he complained to a fellow runner of exhaustion. "Tremendous fatigue often occurs prior to a heart attack," says Sheehan. More important, Fixx told his family that he felt a tightness in his throat while running. This, says Winslow, was probably angina, a telltale sign of coronary trouble. Though commonly described as a gripping pain in the chest, angina can occur anywhere from the nose to the navel. Usually it occurs in the same place and disappears when physical activity stops. "Tightness" and "heaviness...