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...master of King Theseus' revels, makes his way through the underbrush and starts doing card tricks, he creates a mild sense of foreboding. Magician Ricky Jay is a deft dealer, but his sleight of hand tips the hand of Director James Lapine. This will be an evening of chipper invention, but one that will skirt the deeper, darker depths of this forest, where magic turns to mystery and the tumbling appearance of the fairy kingdom's wayward spirits becomes a metaphor for the wayward heart's enigmatic leapings...
...hoping to prove to Anne that the flyer is two-timing her, becomes profoundly interested in his new role as amateur detective. Eventually he is proved wrong again, but luckily for him, his odd behavior attracts the interest of Lucie, an adolescent schoolgirl (Anne-Laure Meury), who is chipper, commonsensical and utterly charming-the larky heart of the film. For her, his obsession is a game, something to engage her imagination more sportively than the German grammar she's supposed to be studying that afternoon in the park...
...Chief allowed that it would "be a kick" to fly in an F-14 jet fighter, though he did not insist on going for a ride. He jokingly ordered the flight boss to "tighten up the interval" of the planes hurtling every few seconds off the deck. He stayed chipper through a precision bombing run that nearly jolted him out of his white-draped deck chair. Addressing the Constellation's 5,000 officers and crew later, Reagan reaffirmed his pledge of "a 600-ship Navy, a Navy that is big enough to deter aggression wherever it might occur...
...Michigan. It succeeded. More than one specialty shop whipped up jelly-bean ice cream in honor of Ronald Reagan's Inauguration, but Washington Lawyer Weiss, perhaps foreseeing litigation, quickly withdrew his from his menu at Bob's Famous. Said he: "It looked like a potential tooth chipper...
...entered Room 450 of the old Executive Office Building with a jaunty step and a chipper "Good afternoon," flashing that familiar grin at the 150 reporters who had gathered for Ronald Reagan's first press conference since March 6, three weeks before the assassination attempt. "I have recovered," said the President, who described his return to health as a "medical miracle." Certainly there was plenty of the old zip when he urged Congress to get moving on his budget and tax-cut bills (see following story). But when the questions were about foreign policy-as 15 of 25 were...