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Many White House observers, such as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, portray Nixon in this final period as a man verging on suicide or nervous breakdown, at times incapable of dealing with potential threats to national security. Episodes of Richard Nixon, jabbering incoherently, or talking to paintings of past presidents at night in the White House have been widely reported. On the basis of his own first-hand observations, Price says he rejects these reports of Nixon as "being bonkers" during the final weeks of his presidency. Because of Nixon's unique ability to "departmentalize and compartmentalize" issues and ideas...
This week, Alexandra finishes her work in an ABC movie starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, filmed over the last month in Boston. Her daily routine has not been an easy one: up at 5 a.m., study till 6, on the set at 6:30. Filming during the next 12 hours till 6:30 p.m., with a quick break for lunch, a return to Lowell House by 7 for dinner, and then back to the books, capping the night off with three hours of piano practice...
...Harvard. One group is made up of the people who are "really in it for show biz," she says--"all glitter, very interested in themselves, superficial." The second group--the people she'd like to emulate--see performing as a profession, and remain themselves off stage. Joanne Woodward has impressed her as such an actress, she says; an earthiness combined with depth and intelligence. "Those are the people I admire." She sounds a bit annoyed when she describes the same split in Harvard's theatrical circles, because she believes many of the people involved in theater here who have never...
...Successful Motivation of Ghetto Students" will be discussed by Samuel Woodward, professor at Howard University, in the Fredrick Douglass Room, on the ground floor of 77 Dunster Street...
Investigative Reporter Bob Woodward says that the miniseries "illustrates the precise reason why Carl Bernstein and I refused to sell movie or TV rights to The Final Days." Both feared what dramatization might do to their account of Richard Nixon's resignation; having been participants in All the President's Men, they felt they could exercise some control over their first book. Woodward also objects to The Company, John Ehrlichman's novel on which the miniseries is loosely based. Says Woodward: "The events, the characters are so thinly veiled. If a work is fiction, then there...