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...tougher one. It has been 17 years since Bush was U.S. envoy to China, yet he still seems to suffer from the clientitis that sometimes afflicts ambassadors who represent the views of their host governments too well. Three weeks after Tiananmen, the President dispatched National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger to kowtow in secret to Deng, then sent them back several months later to toast him in public...
...Field," by Robert Sperra, brings up more serious issues. Jake (Will Minton) and Mickey (Brent Johnstone) are two soldiers who tell jokes to ease the pressure of working their way across a mine field. Minton and Johnstone strike just the right balance between comedy and tragedy, making the audience alternately titter with nervous laughter and cling to their seats in anticipation of doom...
...composed entirely of Freudian slips. The prissy Jane (Jane Sperling) and her luggish fiancee Dink (Ron Weiner) coo at each other about becoming "moan and woof" and their upcoming "hiney-moon" in "A Frantic City." Jane must reject her "old toy-friend" Jerry, played by the slouching, smooth-talking Brent Johnstone, as must Dink shun the advances of Pam Shores' provocative Alas, before the couple can properly appreciate "encaged" life...
...agreement with Congress on Nicaragua in 1989 and by helping stitch together last year's coalition against Saddam Hussein. Baker may not fashion foreign policy single-handedly -- certainly not in an Administration where the President is a seasoned internationalist who also consults closely with National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and Defense Secretary Dick Cheney. But Baker is the man who, more than any other, gets White House policy to work...
...twenty-six-year-old son, Oswald Alving (Brent Blair), recently returned home from living in Paris, because "even an artist needs rest." Blair delivers a respectable, if not predictable, performance of a boy who attended French boarding schools as a child and spent his entire life away from his Norwegian home...