Word: buchananism
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Patrick J. Buchanan, White House director of communications and resident ideologue, is chief architect of the President's strategy of pugnacious confrontation with Congress on aid to the Nicaraguan rebels. Reagan's decision to make a slam-bam push for contra aid was widely regarded in the capital as a personal victory for the tenacious Buchanan, who lately has been on something of a roll. If the contra aid strategy succeeds, Buchanan's ascendancy may signal as well a fundamental shift in the way the White House does business --from political pragmatism and compromise to ideological purity and contentiousness...
...play opens with Candor and Glamiss (Dan Buchanan) resolving to stage a rebellion against the Archduke Duncan (Danny Vanderryn). Whitney and Buchanan carry themselves with the kind of frantic nervousness of the classroom cut-up you'll remember from high school; they generate their fair share of laughs, but you can forget about the illusion of reality...
...Matt Buchanan has written a varied and pleasing musical score, especially effective during the battle scene. Occasionally though, the music is played over several scenes of dialogue, an annoying innovation apparently taken from TV. It ought to have been left there. At one point, the cast makes an ill-advised attempt to sing along to a Mr. Rogers-style piano. For all you kids out there, do whatever you like in the shower, but please, please, DO NOT DO THIS ON STAGE...
...bring in a distant image got ABC into trouble with the White House on Wednesday night following President Reagan's nationally televised speech on defense spending. Taking advantage of its hookup with Moscow, the network gave Posner an opportunity to comment for seven minutes. This infuriated Patrick J. Buchanan, Reagan's director of communications, who criticized ABC in a letter for giving air time to a "trained propagandist." Richard Wald, ABC News senior vice president, agreed in a statement that the network had erred by "letting (Posner) push on at too great a length without an opposing voice to point...
White House communications director Patrick J. Buchanan argued that the Contra aid vote will reveal whether the Democratic Party "stands with Ronald Reagan and the resistance -- or (Nicaraguan President) Daniel Ortega and the communists...