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Instead of the marshes and rivers of Jefferson's day separating Washingtonians from their constituents we now have a six-lane macadamized beltway. And there are plenty of goings-on within that circle to keep politicians occupied. Granted Reagan's foreign policy apparatus deserves a lot of attention in the upcoming election, but let's not forget that there are plenty of non-Washington based issues out there that also should be the focus of the upcoming campaigns...
...some Pirandellian interest to the issue by writing End of the World as a play about writing a play on the arms race--incidentally turning the playwright into a heroic comedian a la Neil Simon. Flailing madly for dramatic interest, Kopit scatters references to detective fiction, academia and Beltway culture that are not nearly so hip as kopit thinks. To call the of his efforts "contrived" would be generous indeed...
However, O'Neill has been listening to his old golfing buddy Gerald Ford. The former President has proposed that they team up for celebrity tournaments, which have supplemented Ford's income since he left the White House in 1977. Tip is finding there's plenty of green outside the Beltway, and it isn't all on the golf course...
...title was premature, but it sounded good to Congresswoman Barbara Mikulski, who had just won the Democratic nomination for the Senate by beating Maryland Governor Harry Hughes and Representative Michael Barnes. Maryland's Republican nominee for the Senate, meanwhile, was celebrating her primary victory south of the Capital Beltway with a well-known admirer. Linda Chavez was spending some time away from Maryland to take part in a photo session at the White House, demonstrating her ties to a former employer, Ronald Reagan...
Michael Deaver was on safari in Kenya last week. But back inside the Beltway in Washington, he was the hunted, not the hunter. In a rebuff to the former White House aide, a House panel voted 17 to 0 to recommend that the independent counsel investigating Deaver's lobbying activities examine charges that he committed perjury in his May testimony before the subcommittee...