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What's wrong with this picture is its almost bizarre irrelevance to the world outside the White House windows. Ronald Reagan's Administration has been gravely wounded by Iranscam, faces newly assertive Democratic majorities in both Houses of Congress, and seems bereft of the bold initiatives that might save the last two years of his presidency from lame-duck drift. Yet he carries on with the same unruffled optimism and inattention to the messy details of policy that have marked his administrative style since his early days as Governor of California...
...THOUGH BEREFT of any truly relevant emotional depth, Litt's journey into the ridiculous has its humorous moments. As a result of the unsupervised infant's nasty habit, Papa Harry Goldstein (Billy Salloway) turns into a wino. Mama Nancy (Jennifer Harris) liberates herself from housewifehood by taking on a job as a pancake flipper at the neighborhood IHOP. Young Benjamin Goldstein (Alfred Naddaff) finds solace in the ways of the Hare Krishna, and his sister Melissa, played brilliantly by Lucy Soutter, pukes her way into heavy-duty bulimia. This is the disparate stuff workshop pieces are made...
...well with Reeboks and condominiums as Agatha Christie's puzzlers did with spats and country homes. In the '80s, not only the dead are ) victims: "Was this what murder did to the innocent?" wonders a bystander. "Took away the people they loved, loaded their minds with terror, left them bereft and unfriended under a smouldering sky." Dalgliesh's assistant, Inspector Kate Miskin, provides a counterpoint to the Tory values exemplified by most of the characters on both sides of the law. Miskin has risen from a council-flat childhood to an imitation of chic affluence. A visitor to her sterile...
...girlfriend called Rosebud and spent much of his day soaking in the tub. But no doubt a peculiar loneliness descends upon the autocrat condemned to live out his days in one of the upstairs rooms, like a mental case in the family. He is the Wizard of Oz, bereft of his wonder machine...
...said that in the area of equipment, "it's a question of degree. We are not bereft of equipment, but we certainly need to extend what we have...