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...describe her. She comes equipped with an ingeni(e)ous echo, a snotty little girl's voice placed piercingly over the audience. Most of the other special effects have a deliberately plodding quality: the magician is lowered--haltingly--from the splashy proscenium on a "magic carpet"; an actor stands on a platform that is then turned round and round by other actors to indicate movement through space or disorientation; a charmingly flustered little girl (Tamsy Johnson) removes her ape head at the end of the show and recites--haltingly--a speech about how she's not really...
...White House, and Reagan seems aware that he is exactly five minutes behind schedule. He leaves the elevator that has brought him from breakfast with his wife in the family quarters, bids a smiling "Hi, hi" to Secret Service agents and strides so quickly down the red carpet that the entourage must scurry to keep up. Reagan is not a morning person. He wakens at an unpresidential 7:30 or 7:45 (vs. 6 a.m. for Jimmy Carter). Today's 8 o'clock call from the White House switchboard found the Reagans already risen from their king-size...
...Israel, but there are still plenty of places where Anwar Sadat is considered something of a model statesman. Last week the Egyptian President went to Western Europe and came away with bravos ringing in his ears. He was given a standing ovation by the European Parliament, then a red carpet reception by French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing...
...next day, he and Nancy rode in a motorcade to downtown Los Angeles for a red-carpet reception at city hall and a lunch with businessmen and other admirers at the Biltmore Hotel. Jesse Unruh, a Democrat who ran against Reagan for Governor in 1970, had an imaginative compliment. Said Unruh: "You rarely get into trouble in the political field because of your enemies. It is the most difficult part of leadership to be able to say no to your friends." That, he added, was one thing Reagan had proved himself capable of doing...
...failed in 1972 because of the increasing popularity of wash-and-wear garments and the loss of two high-volume customers. After his business declined by $30,000 over three years, McDaniel was forced to sell out for $32,000. He had unsuccessful flings in real estate leasing and carpet cleaning, but then in 1975 he bought a second dry-cleaning shop from a friend who was operating it unprofitably. "I thought I was through with dry cleaning, but it was a bargain," he says...