Diary Straits

The Washington Post;  September 17, 1995 ;   Tony Kornheiser;   737 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 ;   Alan Taylor;   787 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...

`Diary' of Jack the Ripper Canceled as Hoax

The Washington Post;  September 8, 1993 ;   David Streitfeld;   776 words ...Warner Books Inc. yesterday canceled "The Diary of Jack the Ripper," exactly one month...intensive last-minute investigation of the diary at the behest of the publisher after a...the alleged diarist's penmanship; and the diary is written in an oversize scrapbook with...

In search of the self: authorship and identity in Victoria Benedictsson's...

Scandinavian Studies;  June 22, 2004 ;   Wichmann, Sonia;   787 words ...IN A DIARY ENTRY from March 1887, approximately a year before...statement, she tried to draw a line between her diary and her published fiction as well as between her life and her work. The diary, she implies, is intimate, enclosed, a single representation...

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

The Sunday Telegraph London;  December 31, 2000 ;   Nigel Nicolson;   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...

Walking by Faith: The Diary of Angelina Grimké, 1828-1835

South Carolina Historical Magazine;  July 1, 2004 ;   Conklin, Carli;   787 words ...Walking by Faith: The Diary of Angelina Grimk, 1828-1835. Edited by...a path she chronicled in her personal diary in the years directly preceding her entrance...compiled the original entries of Grimk's diary, which she penned from 1828 to 1835. In...

Dad shouldn't be reading young daughter's diary

Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  August 5, 2008 ;   John Rosemond;   431 words ......composition book that she had been using as a diary and became upset at some of the things...parents should not read a child's private diary unless a sudden change in the child's behavior...the child isn't communicating, and the diary might hold a clue as to the nature of the...

`Good giggles' abound in `Diary'

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  June 21, 1998 ;   GAIL COOKE;   576 words ...Bridget Jones's Diary. By Helen Fielding. Viking. 271 pages. $22.95. Dear Diary, Great news I have found a new best friend! Her name...met in Helen Fielding's first novel "Bridget Jones's Diary," a hysterically funny fictional (although I think...

DIARY

The Press;  July 12, 2003 ;   VAN BEYNEN, Martin;   210 words ...Diary's heartland IT MIGHT be thought by some that a media elite like Diary does not have time for the little people. To prove this is not so, Diary again puts its enormous appeal to good use to help Sharon, who has wrongly received...

Sakowicz charms celebrity cooks

Chicago Sun-Times;  May 17, 1990 ;   Bev Bennett;   787 words ......pots-and-pans detail to her home staff, but Sig Sakowicz, who can charm the bite out of a chile...recently got her to do a cooking demo. Sakowicz, well-known to Chicago audiences for...I got her to appear on my show," said Sakowicz. Actually, Sakowicz's format is very...

Diary of hate written by Briton seized in Pakistan.

The Evening Standard (London, England);  August 9, 2005 ;     787 words ......INVESTIGATORS were today examining the diary of a British would-be suicide bomber arrested...was held by security services in May. The diary, discovered on a laptop computer seized...with the terror attacks on 7 July. His diary appears to reveal a young man angry with...

Jack the Ripper Diary Ignites Heated Debate

Chicago Sun-Times;  October 17, 1993 ;   Caroline Brothers;   370 words ......but the jury is still out on whether The Diary of Jack the Ripper is a fake. Warner Books...September said bluntly: "Jack the Ripper Diary is a Fake." But Robert Smith, managing director of the diary's British publisher, Gryphon Smith, said...

William Johnson's Diary: The Text and the Man Behind It

Southern Quarterly;  January 1, 2006 ;   Andrews, William L;   787 words ......antebellum Natchez, kept an intensely private diary for almost sixteen years, from 1835 until...his early business ventures, Johnson's diary evolved into an extraordinary record of...Adam Davis, who researched and edited his diary for publication in 1951 after it was discovered...

Ceremony commemorates Anne Frank, honors woman who saved her diary

Jewish Telegraphic Agency;  March 20, 1995 ;   Alexandra J. Wall;   639 words ......Anne Frank, honors woman who saved her diary. Miep Gies, the Dutch woman responsible for rescuing Anne Frank's diary from the secret annex where the Frank...eyes as Gies recalled how she found the diary after the Frank family and four other...

The diary of Victor Klemperer

Chicago Jewish Star;  October 13, 2006 ;   Fox, Michael;   640 words ...The diary of Victor Klemperer VICTOR KLEMPERER, A PROFESSOR...words. From 1933 to 1945, Klemperer kept a diary in which he recorded the agonizing details...ambient sound as a sweetener. Klemperer's diary entries (read in English) provide much of...