Word: chip
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However, Marvin is innately domestic ("I want a tight-knit family"), and through the agency of a psychiatric guru, Mendel, played in an excruciatingly droll fashion by Chip Zien, a leaky roof is kept over all heads. From the opening number, Four Jews in a Room Bitching, the humor is spikily and spicily urban and ethnic. The actors are spirited, and Director James Lapine's tempo is stopwatch crisp. In astringence and cleverness, Finn is the child of Stephen Sondheim. In the current musical theater, no one could choose a better master or pay an apter tribute...
...truck driver, and the next time I'm stopped by a CHiP officer, I only hope it is Erik Estrada and not the real thing...
...than makes up for in aggressive money management. In contrast to the Saudis, with their conservative investment policies, the Kuwaitis have long used their surplus oil revenues, which now exceed an estimated $65 billion, to wheel and deal in real estate and in the stocks and bonds of blue-chip Western companies...
...garbage." The remark was vintage Campo. He refuses to make his sentences parse or his opinions palatable. He also pre-empts criticism about his appearance (5 ft. 7 in., 250 Ibs.) by proclaiming himself the Fat Man. Says one New York trainer: "He's got a huge chip on his shoulder, an inferiority complex that he defends by putting on a superiority complex. But fortunately, a good horse doesn't know who his trainer is." Others may scorn Campo's city background and his own ineptness in the saddle. ("He's no horseman," says a Kentucky...
...remarkable word-processing machine until daylight, running two or three miles and later during the day continuing to work on the book several hours." The down-home updater also includes domestic news. Rosalynn, 53, "has almost gotten our home liveable and will soon begin her own book." Chip, 31, "is taking care of our farms and our business affairs," and Amy, 13, "is going to a very good school about 20 minutes away." In fact, the former President seems downright hooked on Plains living. Says Jimmy: "I do not feel under any pressure -except to be in a good north...