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...Shelley Berman's closet, a dozen $325 suits hang in a row, the right sleeve of each bent at the elbow, recalling a cocked arm holding a telephone. Short of a medieval armorer, no tailor could keep a jacket from taking on the prime characteristic of its owner, the comedian who has risen to fame by talking to imaginary people on imaginary telephones...
Insecurity Forever. At acting school and later in stock, Berman appeared in everything from Shakespeare to Chekhov to Charley's Aunt. Classmate Geraldine Page remembers Shelley's "potent personality, which sometimes bent the plays out of focus." As the clerk in Saint Joan, "he was so startlingly effective you thought it became almost a play about...
Formidable obstructive powers still repose in the House Rules Committee-and in its chairman, if he has enough committee votes behind him. Over the years the committee's frequent roadblocks have exasperated and angered Presidents and Congressmen bent on getting programs enacted, but its powers have survived undipped because Rules performs an indispensable function in the lawmaking process. Essentially, the Rules Committee serves as the House's traffic-control device, as necessary as traffic lights at big-city intersections. The House has 437 members, who among them introduce several thousand bills every year. Under an old House rule...
Once, Bowles publicly and unprofessionally took India's side in the Kashmir dispute, and some critics thought he bent over too far in helping Nehru squeeze as much U.S. aid out of Washington as the traffic would bear. Bowles's dedication and fervent propagandizing helped to form a strong pro-India lobby...
...bent down, put his head into the hole, and called...