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...things rescue Touch from the usual family conflict study. One is its humor; the other, some exceptionally good characterizations which are performed extremely well. The humor is apparent even from the opening of the play when the downstairs toilet is reported out of commission. When Ruth complains about her bladder, fixit husband Jack suggests a milk bottle and retorts, "Learn to aim. I have." But after a great deal of water sloshing in buckets the crisis is resolved. Characterizations are often achieved through a single line. When Ruth speaks of herself as cultered she says, "Red wine with meat...
...Engrossed though he was with the economy, the President somehow managed to be in on just about everything else in Washington last week. Since his gall bladder operation six months ago, Lyndon Johnson has stayed more or less to himself in the White House, showing little of the freewheeling quality of his pre-operation days. Last week he seemed to break out and, for the first time in months, become truly himself again - that is to say, elementally energetic, maddeningly moody and utterly unpredictable...
...Nazis in 1933, but returned after the war to continue his contro versial themes, most notably in 1963, when he staged the world premiere in Berlin of The Deputy, Rolf Hochhuth's stinging indictment of Pope Pius XII's wartime attitude toward Jews; of a ruptured gall bladder; in Starnberg, Bavaria...
...moved into the White House, half a mile away. He found in Davis a clergyman who was not shy about expressing admiration for the President. In an open letter to the President, Davis declared that "I sensed God there" in Johnson's patient, painful recovery from his gall bladder operation. In the same letter, he also told the President: "You broke the back of religious bigotry in the United States." Returning the compliments, Johnson has occasionally invited Davis to lunch after church...
...seven: unusual bleeding or discharge; a lump or thickening in the breast or elsewhere; a sore that does not heal; a change in bowel or bladder habits; hoarseness or a cough; indigestion or difficulty in swallowing; a change in a wart or mole...