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...fortunate to be surrounded by accomplished stage professionals. Peter Van Norden brings Anthony Anstey to disreputable life. Ernie Sabella does a hilarious burlesque comic turn. As the kooky Mrs. Kenworth, Anna McNeely is a model of repressed Edwardian sexuality ready to burst at her ample seams. Her awesome vocal apparatus displayed in "The Voice in My Heart" could not only blow the whole cast of Dreamgirls away but teach them some musical technique as well. Finally as Goldie Gates Maureen Brennan displays a lovely voice, marvelous comic timing, and a delightful ingenue quality...
...answer is not yet, perhaps primarily because he has been so busy with his direct responsibilities. Clark's two most pressing tasks are to restore smooth operations in a White House foreign policy apparatus that is plainly troubled, and to get Reagan more intimately involved in national security affairs. Clark's controversial predecessor, Richard V. Allen had lacked the authority and stature to achieve wither goal...
...just done. Reagan insisted that he was firmly opposed to racial bias; his only concern, he said, was with a procedural principle-the belief that Congress, not the IRS, should exercise control over such rulings. The awkward performance raised serious questions about Reagan's haphazard policymaking apparatus as well as his sensitivity to civil rights. Admitted one top adviser ruefully: "We blew...
...Stanton Evans, a contributing editor of Human Events magazine, drew cheers when he noted that Allen had not joined "the George Bush apparatus" in the 1980 G.O.P. primaries, and added about Allen: "This makes you wonder how he got a job in this Administration." Reflecting the feeling that the press had vastly exaggerated Allen's alleged conflicts of interest, the Rev. Norris W. Sydnor, a Baptist minister from near by in Maryland, used the invocation to declare: "We think about the free press and sometimes the threat that it has on our freedom in America...
...guesthouse at Döllnsee, in a wooded area to the north of East Berlin, now serves as a lakeside retreat for Honecker, the German Democratic Republic's boss since 1971. The guesthouse is also the place where Honecker, as chief of East Germany's internal security apparatus in 1961, received orders to begin construction of the Berlin Wall, which has since divided the two Germanys...