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...actors taking full advantage of the set. When Mad Margaret enters at the end of the first act, she waltzes all over the stage, revealing her violent hatred of the goody-goody Rose Maybud. Sommers as Mad Margaret belts out her lines in a clear resounding voice and her chaotic motions brilliantly convey her characters madness. Also hysterical is the etiquette scene between Rose Maybud and the sailor Richard--known fondly as Dick--during which Dick proclaims his love for Rose and she responds by referring to her manners book. Their voices blend well in this scene and during other...
...whose perceived peril on Grenada had been one of the President's rationales for what he called the "rescue mission." Addressing about 300 of the returned students, whom he had invited to the White House, along with some of the troops who had helped them get off the chaotic island, Reagan criticized those who "belittled the danger that you were in." The President added: "It is very easy for some know-it-all in a plush protected quarter to say that you were hi no danger. I have wondered how many of them would have changed places with...
...structures. Kennedy's mind was extremely orderly, but his techniques in office were sometimes heterodox and unexpected. They might have struck an outsider as being somewhat chaotic. He constantly bypassed the chain of command. He telephoned Assistant Secretaries or lesser military officers in order to seek information he needed. His press secretary, Pierre Salinger, once remarked that the back door of the White House always seemed more open than the front door. He understood the dynamics of meetings, and sometimes mistrusted them as a way of doing business. He thought that his presence might intimidate people. He liked...
While official regulations dictate that an overtaking boat has the right of way and that the boat being passed must move to the right, the narrowness and curves of the Charles, combined with the generally chaotic brouhaha on the banks, often make this difficult...
...Boston area's most chaotic then was closed off to traffic from 4 a.m. until shortly after 3 p.m., in order to repave a cluster of streets that have been chopped up by five years of construction work...