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...stand-up comedian just after the heyday of "Hey, hey, L.B.J." protests, Randy Quaid used to do a takeoff routine on Lyndon Johnson. "He was always some kind of buffoon figure for me when I was growing up," he acknowledges. But after being cast as the Texas politician in LBJ, an NBC-TV movie to air next season, Quaid immersed himself in research that included taped interviews with Lady Bird Johnson, who is played by Patti LuPone. "I came to have this immense respect for the man," fellow Texan Quaid, 35, says now. "I could identify very strongly with...
Hillson sparked a shouting match at a candidates' forum last month when he accused O'Neil of encouraging "racist mobs" during the busing crisis. Yesterday he said he had "enjoyed taking Councilor O'Neil on," and called the departing candidate a "racist" and a "buffoon...
Democrats have long tried to attack Reagan the man, and yet his image as president remains untarnished. They have yet to launch a sustained attack against Reagan the president. When Democrats dismiss Reagan as a "buffoon," they simply demonstrate their ignorance of the powerful changes in public opinion that helped Reagan win office and have supported a string of successes during his administration...
Familiarity with the area doesn't appear to help. Even Iranians writing for an American audience--that is, people who should know better--vacillate between the image of Khomeini the totalitarian dictator and Khomeini the buffoon...
...Self is not: disciplined, patient, and well read. He is also a modish literary distraction from technical problems inherent in plotless first-person narratives. Will Self ever direct a movie? Will he ever finish reading Animal Farm? Will the manna ever stop falling? The answers matter little, since Amis' buffoon is at his best when he is doing his worst...