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...days later, John Dean came before Judge John Sirica to be sentenced for the single count of conspiracy hi the Watergate cover-up that he pleaded guilty to last October. Accompanied by his attorney, Charles Shaffer, and Shaffer's wife Susan (Maureen Dean was at home in Los Angeles), Dean placed himself at the mercy of the court: "The only thing I would ask for is your compassion and understanding. I realize to say I am sorry is not enough." After denying Shaffer's request to postpone sentencing until the newly released Watergate tapes could shed more light...
...past Bob Heard, 27, a prison guard who had been designated first of the hostages to die. His voice cracking with emotion, Heard implored over the phone: "Give them whatever they want, and at least we'll know we tried, that we didn't die cooped up hi here like a slaughterhouse-and that's what it will...
...have great plasticity. His friend Candice Bergen speaks of his "cobra eyes." His energy level can vary with the most careful calibration. His two best roles-as Bobby Dupea, the thwarted concert pianist in Five Easy Pieces (1970) and David Staebler, the self-consumed and self-deceived radio monologist hi The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)-are shaded with anxiety, shaped with a muted force...
...desk every morning at 8 and often was still there after midnight, sometimes conferring with his staff as late as 3 a.m. When he got a chance, he relaxed by playing paddle ball on the congressional courts or by listening to opera records-Tosca is his favorite -hi the apartment he maintains near the Capitol. Weekends he spent in Newark with his wife Marianna, who had been a high school girl friend. (The Rodinos have two children-Peter, a law student at Seton Hall University, and Margaret, the wife of a Newark judge.) The pace was too fast. In February...
...best stories is Edward and God, about a young teacher who pretends to great holiness in order to seduce a churchly girl. It gets him hi trouble with his atheistic school directress, whom he must thereupon seduce. Equally as good is Symposium, a pants-off bow to Plato, which follows several male doctors, a woman doctor and a nurse through a nightlong rigadoon. Everyone is feeling randy, and each soul present, though perfectly satisfied that he knows what is happening, is in fact calamitously mistaken about who wants to do what to whom...