Word: woodruffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Judy Woodruff wants, and gets, out of the White House...
...Judy Woodruff leads one of the most glamorous lives in Washington. As a White House correspondent for NBC television, she has waltzed at state dinners, traveled with Presidents to New Delhi and Versailles. Acclaim has gilded every aspect of her life. Like many working mothers, Woodruff, 35, brought her infant son Jeffrey to the office one day; unlike other mothers, she was summoned to see President Reagan, who spent ten minutes bouncing the baby and chanting nursery rhymes...
...when excitement settles into a familiar routine, even the most thrilling assignment becomes just a job. The White House beat, for all its glories, is often repetitive and tedious, the equivalent of covering a fenced-off headquarters in a company town. Says Woodruff: "Access is very tightly controlled; inevitably, you are manipulated. You rarely see your sources. You wait for them to return phone calls." Last week, weary of it all after nearly six years, Woodruff gave up her coveted job to become a Washington-based reporter and interviewer for the morning news show Today...
...WOMAN, Sarah Woodruff, is called "the French lieutenant's woman" (and sometimes "the French lieutenant's whore") because she is said to have dallied with a visiting French officer--a scandalous reputation she encourages. Charles and Sarah fall into a curious kind of love. Their story is not merely a romance, but Romantic in the grand style. Pinter's second story shows Irons and Streep playing Mike and Anna, the two 20th-century leads having a back-stage affair...
...million copies and been translated into 18 languages. It is easy to see why. Against a backdrop of the lush Dorset landscape, two young lovers scale the Wuthering Heights of passion and despair. Charles Smithson, a kind and restless and resolutely ordinary gentleman of his day, meets Sarah Woodruff, once a genteel governess, now an outcast for her shameless "affair" with a capricious foreign sailor. That first gaze is enough. He abandons his wealthy fiancée, his friends and his good name to be with her-and, when Sarah mysteriously abandons him, to live with her memory...