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...unsinkable Bella Abzug tossed one of her outsize hats into yet another political ring last week. It was some chapeau: a black straw garden-party number. Likewise, it was some ring: the race for the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City. No one was exactly surprised at Bella's decision. The onetime Congresswoman, loser to Daniel Patrick Moynihan for a Democratic nomination in last year's U.S. Senate race, had been announcing her announcement for weeks. Still, when she decided to make the toss official, Bella, 56, announced again, with characteristic vigor. "I'm rarin...
...page anticipating a crucial revelation and finds instead a new, unrelated chapter, one can cringe and say "Aha. He's trying to build suspense--cheap trick." The simple reason Mayer used moth-eaten tactics is that he can use them successfully. Besides, everything else is parodied in this book. Bella Abzug drives a taxi, Bill Buckley is a Tombs prison guard and Holden Caulfield is a proctologist. Maybe, just maybe, the good guy gets squashed...
...that I think women are superior to men," said the former Congresswoman from New York in a speech at Harvard. "It's just that they haven't had the opportunity to be corrupted by power." When the cheers of the students died down several minutes later, Bella Abzug added, "We'd like that opportunity." The particular office she seemed to be after was that of mayor of New York City, a job she described as "the toughest in the country, maybe in the world." Her two days on campus as a visiting fellow at the John...
Operation Overkill sets in, but the play is weak in credibility and ramshackle in structure. Only the actresses stand out. Eileen Heckart is a thorough delight as Dede's pal Bella Gardner, a swaying lush more avidly at home in bedrooms than boardrooms. In the juiciest part, Estelle Parsons blows through the play like a typhoon...
...Bella Abzug--Adams Lower Common Room...