Word: bernstein
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...BERNSTEIN AT 70 (PBS, March 19, 9 p.m. on most stations). A musical tribute, held at Tanglewood last August, featuring Beverly Sills, Bobby McFerrin, Betty Comden and many other admirers from the music world...
LOYALTIES by Carl Bernstein; Simon & Schuster; 262 pages...
...years since he helped topple a President, Carl Bernstein has become famous more as a celebrity than as a journalist. He has been pictured on the gossip pages with a procession of notable women. He was portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in All the President's Men, based on the Watergate book he co- authored with Bob Woodward, and, as a fictional character, by Jack Nicholson in Heartburn, based on a cleverly barbed novel by his former wife, Nora Ephron. All the while, he was waging an off-and-on struggle with a project that he described to friends...
...book is finally out, and it turns out to be far more personal than that. It is a candid and powerful inquiry into his parents, their union activities during the 1940s and their secret membership in the Communist Party. As Bernstein explains to his father, "It's a very personal book. It's not a history book at all." In fact, it is a book about writing a book, a book about Bernstein writing the book that his parents did not want him to write...
Returning from Harvard's national-champion heavyweight boat are John Amory, John Bernstein, Donald Fawcett, Olympian Jack Rusher, Phil Schuller and Peter Sharis. Sharis, who had never rowed before coming to Harvard, was the only sophomore member of last year's first boat...