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...week's end Humphrey motorcades had accounted for two dogs and a pig. Termites fell into the wine during a Congolese banquet, and his entourage brushed their teeth with beer rather than risk the water. Humphrey handed out tickets to the U.S. Senate gallery to Liberian youngsters and implied in Kinshasa that he would seek a second vice-presidential term, promising Congolese President Joseph D. Mobutu to wear a leopard-skin cap on the campaign trail...
More than Rogers, Hope has become the friend of politicians and statesmen, tycoons and sportsmen. These are the public figures at whom he tees off at a banquet or on television; yet they cannot wait to tee off with him on the links the next day. He kids the starch out of them, and they feel better for it; a needle from Hope becomes an emblem instead of a scar...
...full of movement for good focus. On a few occasions, he has literally obscured potentially funny or significant dialog by drawing the audience's attention to some simultaneous comic bit. In a single instance, he shows an excess of reverence to the lines, freezing an admirably raucous forest banquet to a tableau, while Jaques (Kenneth Tiger) puts the "Seven Ages of Men" through their paces. On balance, though, Mr. Michaels has directed his actors to speak with speed, clarity and nuance, and they make many more verbal points than they lose...
Philosopher Karl Jaspers, 85, is a ghost at the German banquet who knows just how to haunt complacent fellow countrymen. Ever since the end of World War II, he has been relentlessly reminding his people that guilt belongs not only to Hitler but to the Germans who supported and obeyed him. Six years ago, he brought down Wagnerian thunder on his head by advising Germans to give up their favorite dream, reunification. Now in this slim, blunt: volume-a bestseller in Germany-he has put all the unpleasant reminders together. The result is a remarkable attempt at national selfcriticism. Only...
...incredible amount of destruction involved. We are reminded twice in the third act by references to Sherman's campaign of destruction "from Atlanta to the sea" that Fisk's initial capital was made from war profiteering. The brilliant and terrifying second act finale takes place in a palatial banquet hall overlooking a crowd of thousands of people Fisk and Gould have ruined in a carefully engineered gold-market crash...