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...clear whether the meeting took place in the Oval Office, where Nixon had installed voice-activated recording equipment. The FBI later examined the White House tapes for late 1972, but found no trace of the meeting, indicating that it might have taken place elsewhere in the building...
...Bishop set out to trace J.F.K.'s last day. Robert Kennedy and Jacqueline conspired to silence his sources and made sure that their hand-picked author, William Manchester, beat him into print by a year. Nevertheless, Bishop's assassination chronicle became a bestseller, as did his books on Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr. and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Bishop offers some inside glimpses: J.F.K. changing clothes from the skin out five times a day. L.B.J. inviting Bishop for a shower-side interview and then going to hilarious lengths to conceal his private parts, the callous behavior...
...Maze springs alive for the prisoners around midnight when the guards tend to be less alert and less in evidence. The perfect evening is when the air is still, without a trace of wind or rain. Prison leaders shout into the quiet darkness and their voices carry easily between the H-blocks separated by about 100 ft. The men are called "scorchers," an anglicization of the Gaelic word scairt, for shout, and they fill the air with orders and questions and plain gossip. Sometimes they conduct quiz shows, asking questions about entertainment figures, geography, history. When someone wins, a cheer...
...indeed beautiful. The score glows with a spiritual luminosity rarely encountered in this secular, anxious age, and its inner peace harmonizes with the tenets of the Bhagavad-Gita being sung and the goals of Gandhi's revolution acted out onstage. The opera's three acts (seven scenes) trace the beginnings of the Satyagraha movement during Gandhi's 21 years in South Africa: the founding of the Tolstoy Farm commune, the increasing resistance to discrimination against Indians, the climactic Newcastle march of 1913 in which Gandhi led striking miners in protest against restrictive racial policies. While each scene...
...rich-as-Rockefeller tycoon and his ice-blond wife are found murdered, their throats torn open but no trace of metal from a weapon in the wounds. Who could have savaged them? Wolves. Or, rather, American Indians who have "shifted shape" and become supernatural "wolfen." They hunt in tribes in decaying slums, preying on "the diseased and those who won't be missed." They never come downtown - until the tycoon's urban renewal plan threatens their turf...