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...motion by others. Deaver knows how and when to stir him, how to construct an agenda that Reagan then cheerfully pursues. Like no one except Nancy Reagan, he knows the President's inner feelings. He reads the President's diaries, which Reagan dictates into a tape recorder. Deaver's office, at the insistence of the President, adjoins the Oval Office. He is privy to the problems Reagan has with his children. At the end of a hard day last year, the President received a dressing down on the telephone from one of the children. Reagan...
...tapes were compelling yet also confusing, full of implications but apparently not convincing to a jury skeptical about what went before and after each of the scenes. In one videotape, FBI Agent Benedict Tisa, masquerading as a banker, discussed laundering drug money with De Lorean. In another tape, De Lorean told his old acquaintance and neighbor James Timothy Hoffman, a convicted cocaine dealer, that he had backing for the drug deal from the Irish Republican Army. Unfortunately for the Government's case, the tapes lacked one critical element. Missing were the preliminary stages of the probe, thus leaving debatable...
...that "feminine" has been redefined. "These women have a dream," exulted an Avon spot over a shot of women donning their running shoes. The Arco tots, a pack of three-or four-year-old boys and girls, raced toward the camera. As a little girl in pigtails broke the tape, her look of triumph bespoke a fu ture unimaginable even ten years ago. Once she would have been called a tomboy. Now she is called an athlete...
...days before 1972, when, for example, the budget for women's sports at the University of Michigan was zero, and they were funded by such expedients as girls' peddling apples at football games. At the University of Minnesota, men gymnasts passed on their used tape to the women, who had no budget for tape of their...
There was a time when historians laboriously gathered and sifted evidence before beginning to write. The invention of the tape recorder offered a short cut. By pointing a microphone at enough people and asking them to reminisce about something, would-be chroniclers could now simply market their research. Hence oral histories, an important-sounding term for a form with some serious drawbacks. These include impressionism (not what happened but how it felt) and the notorious unreliabilities of memory. The speakers in such books may represent a true cross section of their society at large; they may also have been chosen...