Word: asse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...done fine things while pulling the Idiot from one trauma to another, lining up three-quarters of the cast to chart their reactions to the consumptive's incipient suicide while the General chews his ear off, and finally letting the consumptive show the General and the Prince his ass before the lights fade. Her lighting cues, for the most part well executed by lighting director Thomas Parry, keep audience attention drawn to the right play areas, and the breaks into song and dance are managed well both by the cast and the orchestra (Dennis Crowley conducted and David Fechtor choreographed...
John Kennedy realized the danger of yes-men and tried to encourage dissent. Lyndon Johnson was a more jealous and insecure man. "I don't want loyalty," he once said, "I want loyalty. I want him to kiss my ass in Macy's window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses. I want his pecker in my pocket," He wanted more than loyalty "Servility" might be a better word. After Hubert Humphrey gave a speech which seemed to take some personal credit for the Administration's education policies, Johnson called in the White House correspondents and remarked...
Rafelson's hero is David Staebler (Jack Nicholson), a late night radio monologuist who broadcasts private traumas packaged for cultural consumption. He leaves the sordid bachelor digs he shares with his grandfather in Philadelphia when summoned to Atlantic City by his brother Jason's telegram, "Get your ass down here. The Kingdom is come." The "Kingdom" turns out to be but a revived version of a boyhood fantasy: to take over Tiki island, one of the Hawaiian archipelago, build a casino and amass a fast fortune. The Staebler brothers spend the rest of the film trying to subsidize the dream...
...reconsidering you. It's implied that you know something about them-otherwise you couldn't know how to go against the grain. The surprises may not always be beneficial, but I find that I need to give to others a sharp kick in their head's ass...
...Brightest begins with hubris: the certainty of a young and ebullient President Kennedy and his New Frontiersmen that they constituted an elite, "a new breed of thinkers-doers" who could handle the world, to say nothing of what President Johnson was to refer to as "a raggedy-ass little fourth-rate country." Halberstam's satirical passion is to discount Camelot mercilessly-all the famous "pragmatists," the zesty lovers of power, the "lean, swift young men who thought it quite acceptable to have idealistic thoughts and dreams just so long as you never admitted them...