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...Clinton's most loyal defenders may not know what to make of the disclosure that since early 1995, she has consulted an alternative spiritual adviser to help her deal with the Whitewater attacks and other woes. In a new book about the presidential campaign, The Choice, Bob Woodward reports that Mrs. Clinton came to rely on Jean Houston, 55, a co-director of the Foundation for Mind Research, who is described by Woodward as "a believer in spirits, mythic and historic connections to the past and other worlds." In one hour-long session in April 1995, Houston led the First...
...writer Paul Johnson, in reviewing the history of Watergate and the Nixon Administration, suggested that Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein did a disservice to America and its interests by pursuing the story of a cheap burglary at the Democratic national headquarters until, in effect, the two reporters drove Nixon to an extremity much like suicide...
...Hollywood Gold Cup in California last July, Cigar was hit in the head by a huge clod of dirt, and Bailey needed all his strength to hold back the horse before letting him go on to an easy victory. Cigar's folk-hero status was further enhanced after the Woodward Stakes at Belmont in September, when a cigar-smoking Jack Nicholson met him in the winner's circle. Cigar's final victory in '95 came in the Breeders' Cup Classic at Belmont on Oct. 28. As the horse headed home, the track announcer shouted, "Here he comes! The incomparable...
...liked but not well liked, the man seemed uncomfortable in his own skin. The canniest moments in the three-plus hours of Nixon, Oliver Stone's dense, ultimately disappointing biopic, capture Nixon at his most pathetically endearing--the Commander in Chief as klutz. In a telling vignette lifted from Woodward and Bernstein's The Final Days, Nixon (Anthony Hopkins) gets so frustrated at his inability to remove a medicine safety cap that he finally bites...
Filled with enough lust and feuding to make Amanda Woodward quake in her boots, these stores, called potboilers, were the pulp fiction of the old -19th century...