Word: true
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poor, you have no business in Washington." So said snippy Journalist Anne Royall in the early 19th century. Her observation is hardly less true today. Only now it must be added that anyone with business in Washington faces little risk of poverty. The great company town on the Potomac is booming. Humorist Russell Baker may garnish the truth when he writes of suburban lawns "green with money." And admittedly not everybody rushed to get at the $13,000 Chinese vases when the new Neiman-Marcus store opened last November. But by the most telling measure?family income?Washington has fattened...
...Washington has evolved into a privileged ghetto, home of a pampered class all but immune to the disheartening tantrums of the economic weather. A few areas may look better off in certain statistics, but none can boast of an affluence quite like Washington's. It is effortless, persisting, secure. True, in the 71% black District of Columbia, poverty persists, along with the core city's reputation for street crime. Even so, black unemployment in D.C. is a third less than the U.S. average...
There are other factual lapses in the book, some attributable to a lack of research, and others which point about 20 degrees off true, as if the anecdotes had been whispered down a long line of people to someone at a typewriter who was unfamiliar with the subject matter...
...John was, in fact, fully clothed in all the photos. Haldeman has written that the pictures were nudes and that I forged "presidential memos to Henry complete with Nixon's 'bizarre demands' for certain types of action." That's a spicy little newsworthy story, but it just isn't true...
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's Padre, Padrone presents an unflinching look at the true story of Gavino Ledda's very personal struggle to overcome the domination of the intractable patriarch who denied him any opportunity for an education--a struggle which results in his becoming a linguist and bestselling author. So much for the basic plot. But this triumphant movie, the first internationally acclaimed Taviani brothers film, can be approached on two other levels--one structural, the other more stylistic. In one sense, Padre, Padrone develops within a movie-as-book format; based on Ledda's autobiography, the film...