Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...funny. A new book on Grant insists that he was bisexual and had a fling with -- goodness gracious! -- Howard Hughes. He also spied for Britain and used LSD. Charles Higham and Roy Moseley, authors of Cary Grant: The Lonely Heart, write, "The honest biographer cannot shirk the painful truth, even at the risk of being called deliberately sensationalist." Some risks are no risks...
...indignantly demanded an investigation. Among the questions they wanted answered: Was a cover-up under way to protect the Thatcher government? Huffed Frank Dobson, shadow leader of the House of Commons: "When is the Secretary of State ((for transport)) going to come to the House and tell us the truth and the whole truth for the first time...
...been destroyed, prompted press speculation that a government cover-up may have taken place. Commented the Rome daily Il Messaggero: "It's no certainty that we will ever know who did it, but it is certain that there was an air chase." Someone, the newspaper added, has concealed the truth...
Bernstein characterized reporting as "the best obtainable version of the truth," and he said, "there wasn't anything exotic about the Watergate reporting. To get to the truth you have to knock on a lot of doors...
...loyalties" of the title thus refer to more than just the allegiance Bernstein's parents had to the Communist Party and to their Government. The real struggle in the book is between Carl's loyalty to (and love for) his parents and his search for the truth about their lives. At times his quest becomes traumatic. Bob Woodward makes cameo appearances, comforting his former partner when he breaks into tears at the memory of a childhood schoolmate calling his mother a Communist...