Diary Straits

The Washington Post;  September 17, 1995 ;     700+ words ...Bob Packwood's diary. Josh Steiner's diary. Frank Richardson's diary, in which Kimba Wood, the dignified, erudite federal judge, shows up as some married millionaire's lust bunny. How many more examples do we have to see before we realize that keeping...

The Essay: One day at a time Samuel Pepys used it to take stock of his...

The Independent - London;  October 28, 2000 ;     700+ words ...A diary is like drink," wrote the Scottish poet William...window, he was, in effect, a prisoner. His diary was his constant companion, a visitor who...over-indulge. For many people, however, a diary is like a reproach, a perpetual reminder...

Review - Features: The art of telling it like it is What better time to...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  January 2, 2000 ;     700+ words ......been perfect. If you are going to keep a diary, can there be a better place to start than...have not tried it before, let me warn you: diary writing calls for commitment, discipline...up, had breakfast, it rained today.' My diary was a bit patchy in the early years and...

Lying to Your Diary

The Washington Post;  February 9, 1990 ;     642 words ......portions of Ronald Reagan's White House diary. His request raises legal issues about...between the author and himself. When such a diary came to light, it illuminated both the...recorded visits to prostitutes. Almost no diary of a public man has since contained such...

LAWYER SEEKS DIARY THAT MAY NOT EXIST

Sun Publications (IL);  January 21, 1998 ;     334 words ......with a teen-age student wants to see a diary the student may have kept containing details...prosecution to provide him with a copy of a diary that he believes the victim kept that mentions...young lady had made mention of him in a diary, and we were never given that diary," he...

Dear diary: Keep a secret Packwood case gives jolt to journal writers

The Boston Globe;  November 4, 1993 ;     700+ words ......for dead certain -- that a person's diary is a private thing. Whoever Packwood is, she suggests, he should keep his diary under his pillow or a pile of folders...Nobody should read another person's diary," Grier exclaimed, agitated at the very...

Don't forget to write; While most of us just use diaries for phone numbers...

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  December 30, 2002 ;     700+ words ......And so began`JANUARY 1. Noon. the famous diary which made Bridget Jones one of our favourite...New Year, famously using her brand new diary to record such resolutions as not to drink...different to many of us in t hat she kept her diary all year long. While many of us savour...

Media: Dear diary: you're under sentence of death today The Times Diary...

The Independent - London;  August 8, 2000 ;     698 words ......columnist, disclosed last week that The Times Diary was under sentence of death, those of us...our core readership. One of the arts of diary-writing is to insert the occasional subtle...week's scoopette by asserting that the Times Diary has been around in some form since before...

The Diary of Emily Dickinson.

The Women's Review of Books;  April 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......have committed to paper if she had kept a diary? The possibilities are enticing, though...actually wrote. The very fact that she had no diary is telling. Dickinson didn't write narrowly...Fuller has written a novel in the form of a diary. A workman, we are told, discovered this...

The New/Old Anne Frank: Despite some expert reworkings, new Broadway...

The New York Jewish Week;  December 12, 1997 ;     700+ words ......reworkings, new Broadway version of "The Diary' can't escape limitations of the original...I searched for a copy of the play "The Diary of Anne Frank" in the Mid-Manhattan branch...great success on Broadway in 1955, "The Diary of Anne Frank" was not one of the Best...

A nasty surprise when reading daughter's diary.(News)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  February 18, 2005 ;     677 words ...Q i found my daughter's diary the other day and discovered she is sexually...and she went mad because I'd read her diary. But there are things a parent needs to...be honest you shouldn't have read her diary in the first place as I know I would be...

PPO to concertize the a[euro]Diary of Anne Franka[euro][TM].(Society)

Manila Bulletin;  November 3, 2005 ;     667 words ......used the power of a book in a form of a diary, which she kept between 1942 and 1944...German Nazis in Amsterdam. Because of this diary which she called aKitty,a she became the...premiere for Michael Tilsonas From the Diary of Anne Frank and will be seen on Nov...

Dear diary: Ancestors' lives are a telling tale in writing

Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA;  October 14, 2005 ;     602 words ..."I THINK THAT MY diary will be more interesting, if I write in...instead of leaving it for two or three days." DIARY OF PHEBE EARLE GIBBONS, SUNDAY, DEC. 7...ancestors. While today people might keep a diary or journal for personal reasons, your ancestor...

Why I could never lie to my diary Time of my life

The Sunday Telegraph London;  December 31, 2000 ;     625 words ......you intend to start or restart your own diary tomorrow, you could do no better than consult it for tips on diary-keeping. It contains extracts from the...But it is not necessary to write your diary every day. Skip a day occasionally when...

Cardinal's secret diary shows Argentine challenged Ratzinger for papacy

AP Worldstream;  September 23, 2005 ;     700+ words ......broken his vow of secrecy and released a diary he kept during the conclave that elected...surprisingly strong showing. Excerpts of the diary, published Friday in the respected Italian...Ratzinger's lead and, according to the diary made clear he didn't want the job, his...