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...times, it seems that Bryant can lave the same effect on the whole state of Alabama. Governor Fob James, who is far less famous than Bryant in the state, praises him as being "larger than life." Bill Baxley, Alabama's former attorney general, calls Bryant "the No. 1 asset of the state." He is certainly treated as though he were: two uniformed state policemen act as bodyguards and chauffeurs on game days. Bryant has achieved a pop-hero status. His face appears on T shirts and bumper stickers, and there are even postcards showing him strolling on water...
Past Tense is a chameleon play that depends very much on the coloration added by the principals. Those who saw George Grizzard and Barbara Baxley perform the drama in its U.S. premiere at the Hartford Stage Company in 1977, under the direction of Paul Weidner, will be hard put to it to recognize the version that skitters across the stage of Manhattan's Circle in the Square...
Grizzard's Ralph was an eternal Lit le Boy Blue but capable of last-ditch courage; Luckinbill is simply an animated puppet dangling jerkily from unseen strings. Baxley's Emily was managerial yet vulnerable; Feldon is as crisp as a fresh ice cube and just about as cool whenever she melts. Under Weidner, pauses became gravamens of a lost chord of happiness. Theodore Mann directs Past Tense as if he were presiding over a domestic roller derby. It is a valuable reminder that the play you see is not always the one the au thor actually wrote...
Included in the 18 who lost subsequent bids for election was Dick Clark, the highly respected liberal Senator from Iowa who fell victim to a right-wing, right-to-life attack. Bill Baxley, crusading attorney general of Alabama, lost a race for Governor; Luther Hodges, successful bank chairman, lost a Senate primary in North Carolina to a man who outspent him 20 to 1; Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, California Congresswoman, lost a race for state attorney general; Andrew Pickens Miller, Virginia's attorney general, lost a race for Senator. Vermont Governor Thomas Salmon, who ably fought the land developers...
...beginning of the campaign, his most likely successor seemed to be Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley, 37, a populist in polo shirt and plaid pants. But he lost last week to Forrest ("Fob") James Jr., 44, a former star halfback at Auburn University '55 and a millionaire manufacturer of sporting gear. James' victory showed that Jimmy Carter's tactics can still pay off, at least in the South. His lavishly financed $2.5 million campaign played up his role as an outsider with no ties to the political system. That image was reinforced by Walker & Associates...