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...swashbuckling former Green Beret, was about to lead three American daredevils and 15 Laotians on an improvised commando raid across the Mekong River. Their scheme: a 14-day trek to rescue American prisoners of war in the jungles of eastern Laos. After only three days, however, the bravado of "Operation Lazarus" was abruptly buried when a band of local guerrillas ambushed the raiders, killing two Laotians, capturing an American, and forcing the others to turn tail...
...cannot imagine a light, or even an end to the tunnel. The two young men's high-kicking, cruel humor works better in the play's free-form first act than in the second, which is overladen with plot. But at every moment they capture the futile bravado of the out-but-not-down, and make the play seem a substantial addition to a season largely devoid of both humor and social conscience...
...sing-talks one of the more than 1,000 ballads he has written. These are songs of subterranean emotions, of dreams and fears and guilty secrets. The best of them are stethoscopes detecting sounds often unheard: the diminished pulse beat of a love gone sour, the anxiety beneath male bravado, the hum of appliances in a lonely woman's flat. One must listen closely; Aznavour's charisma is implosive. He does not play to the audience so much as he admits it to his bittersweet, no-illusions world...
Chrysler's recovery is largely lacocca's doing, a triumph of brains, bluster and bravado. When the company needed money and the banks dithered, he threatened to go into bankruptcy. When he needed pay cuts and the union protested, he warned that he would shut plants. When Chrysler could not pay its bills, he persuaded suppliers to be patient. It now seems a plausible bet?not yet even money but not 100 to 1 either?that lacocca's company will survive as No. 3 against its behemoth competitors, General Motors and Ford, and occasionally even threaten them. Of course...
Only two characters come close to achieving that timelessness and universality which make a character endure. Ben Evett, who plays the role of Vindice with puckish bravado, and Peter Hansen, the Duke's bastard son of conniving mien, carry the play through its weaker moments. When Vindice again draws forth Gloriana's skull--this time as a weapon to poison the Duke, who unsuspecting that she is only a "shell of death" will try to steal a kiss from her in a dark corridor--he handles the scene with a deft blend of madness and humor that make the murder...