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...furry eyebrows still flutter like windshield wipers and the ever-present cigar is just as pungent as it was when Pierre Salinger served as John Kennedy's White House press secretary and a court jester to Camelot. One day this month Salinger, now 52, found himself conducting a press conference again, only this time his audience was a group of French businessmen: "The Concorde is a dinosaur ... There will be no candidate from the Kennedy clan in 1980 ... What do Americans think of France? They do not think about...
...media was at a loss to explain the Fidrych phenomenon, though they attempted to conceal their puzzlement in a blitz of coverage. They asked Fidrych questions, but they werv unsure whether the inchoate answers they received constituted answers. They dug into his past life, talked to his cigar-chomping high school coaches, asked his mother his favorite dish, and visited his old stomping grounds at the gas station. Time and Newsweek featured him with their usual platitudes, running on about the "new baseball fad" or "the teenage symbol." But the more the media mucked and raked, the more they betrayed...
...Garth revels in his labors and savors his influence both during and after campaigns, just as he enjoys his own façade as the rat-tat-tat tough guy, breaking off aphorisms between puffs on his twisted black cigar. (Typical mot: "Reality dictates your strategy. There are no brilliant choices in most situations.") At 47, he conveys an impression of boundless energy in search of new elections, new impact. Indeed, what distinguishes Garth from other political consultants is his influence on some clients after they have won and his immersion in their campaigns. He plots the candidates' advertising...
Still, The Club does more than simply present a male chauvinist's eye view of turn of the century America. The show's songs deal with just about every crucial issue of the time, ranging from the necessity of a quality cigar ("A Good Cigar is a Smoke") to the merits of tradition ("Following in Father's footsteps"). These numbers are performed with applaudable gusto, as the actors prance and gesticulate in unison. Meanwhile, solo numbers like "He Reminds Her of Her Father" provide a somber contrast to all the antics. One beautifully staged moment occurs during an episode when...
...proper academic credentials. But most of his colleagues believe he has more than made up in acquired knowledge for any lack of academic initials to place after his name. Yale's Pilbeam calls Leakey the "organizing genius" of modern paleoanthropology (the study of fossil hominids). Mary Leakey, a vigorous, cigar-smoking woman of 64 who still puts in eight hours a day exploring Olduvai, is also impressed. She says her son "is rather better than Louis was. I'm quite proud...