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...locating White House denials of specific Watergate stories and then ascertaining whether the stories or the denials had been correct. "It was often frustrating," she says, "but having begun digging on any one of them, I couldn't give up. It turned out that the press had committed precious few errors...
...household or the cleaning of a carpet (one with big pink roses on it) into an extraordinary celebration of family love. She does this by a steady accumulation of detail and alternate flashes of passionate statement and raw insight. The accomplishment is formidable-something few writers attempt without sounding precious, dull, or both...
Till it reconvenes, the Rothko trial will furnish the art world with endless speculation. But in the meantime two things seemed certain: the trial will drag on for months after the defense opens in August, and when all the legal costs are paid, there could be precious little left for either Rothko's children or the artists he wanted to help...
...added: "While I have no death wish, I have never been afraid of death. Life is very precious to me, but I have no delusions that going to prison will keep me alive. And I would never choose to live the rest of my life surrounded by pigs like the Hearsts." The day before the tape was delivered, a federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted her for armed bank robbery and committing a felony with a firearm. Added to the 19 felony charges brought against her by authorities in Los Angeles, the latest accusation could keep her in prison...
...Radcliffe is still heated by oil burners which manufacture steam, but Harvard faced only moderate difficulties in maintaining an adequate supply of oil--which was an especially precious commodity in New England this winter...