They mostly declined interviews, maintaining silence when asked about their objectives.
Wymore never remarried and defended her late husband in interviews, maintaining that his rakish public image was not the Flynn she knew.
Despite the region's cultural norm of preserving dignity, the leaders we interviewed maintained that showing vulnerability was instrumental to their success.
"I'm excited to get to work," Mr. Maloney said in an interview, maintaining the energetic, pugnacious attitude that typified his candidacy.
He was released in 1969 and, until the Times interview, maintained his innocence and insisted that he had been framed by the government.
Brubaker, in a telephone interview, maintained that Barlow's dismissal resulted solely from his "poor performance," and not from a government-wide conspiracy to do him in because of his stand on Pakistan.
"We've had 28 consecutive quarters where earnings growth has been over 36percentt," he said last week in a telephone interview, maintaining that the stock had risen simply because the company was a good investment.
Yet every nut-industry expert I interviewed maintained that, as long as nuts are stored in the shell in a cool, dark place, and then cracked and used as needed, they can last for a year.
While Mr. Zelikow, in an interview, maintained that he was not leaving his post because of any disgruntlement, one administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the subject publicly noted that Mr. Zelikow had been frustrated with the pace of the administration's diplomatic efforts on the Middle East, Iran and North Korea.
In the mid-1970s, around the time the "Rocky Horror Picture Show" cult was attracting attention, Huston gave an interview maintaining that people had seen "Beat the Devil" multiple times, knew the dialogue by heart and would recite the lines along with the actors.
