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...sounds naive it's because, for better or for worse, he affects it. Naivete would seem to be the last quality someone battling cynicism in the '90s would want to use, but Davis has selected it for his comic mode. The pretension of naivete merely says that even a chowderhead knows enough to hate Nixon. It also lets him approach his monologues after the fashion of Mr. Rogers by setting himself in his own room, speaking earnestly, changing his coat and addressing the audience as though they were close friends. It's something in between an allusion...
Candidate or Chowderhead? Even before Rockefeller left Washington in 1955, seasoned New York politicians thought they saw the start of a Rockefeller-for-Something movement. The clue: in 1953 knowledgeable Lieut. Governor Frank C. Moore was persuaded to step out of a bright future in Governor Thomas E. Dewey's administration, step into the Rockefeller Government Affairs Foundation as president, a position in which he would be within hailing distance for political counsel. Political geiger counters began to click in earnest last year, when Rockefeller volunteered to help build a stadium for the soon-to-leave-Flatbush Brooklyn Dodgers...
...chiming in second place and tolling louder with each sample was Nelson Rockefeller. Realist Morehouse tore up his list, began to pump for Rockefeller. Said he to a gathering of county leaders: "Either you guys support me while I pick the best candidate or you will get yourselves some chowderhead and get this election all messed...
...Nimbus, a Humanities 3 section man, played by Stephen Addiss. He succeeds in looking the part, and his monologues are often too near reality to be amusing. But in all he captures the faculty spirit, and pleasantly at that. The supporting roles are a compendum of unusual types, including Chowderhead Chumley (Stephen Bolster), who is the suede jacket tough man for the Radcliffe operation. Wheareas he tends to shout more lines than he growls, his walk is an authentic back street swagger. One of his bosses is Congressman Al Gaiter (Robert Rosenberger), who is a bit rough for a slick...
...world of J. P. Marquand (So Little Time; H. M. Pulham, Esq.) - as viewed in Perelman parody - "Out of these things, and many more, is woven the warp and wool of my childhood memory: the dappled sunlight on the great lawns of Chowderhead, our summer estate at Newport, the bitter-sweet fragrance of stranded eels at low tide, the alcoholic breath of a clubman wafted on the breeze from Bailey's Beach...