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...fearsome chops and smiles, because the souffle that is sticking to his face tastes good. He and his sidekicks order three Boston cream pies and settle down peacefully to munch, and the duck, still dripping raspberry goo, does a dance on the counter. Illustrations are cheerfully gaga, though clever three-year-olds will wonder why all the animals except the duck are wearing clothes...
...Clever Michael Crichton understood all that when he wrote his best seller Disclosure. That's why he made the aggressor a female executive, her victim a happily married man who has been passed over for her job -- and with whom, a decade earlier, she had a hot affair. The role reversal alone gives the story some curiosity value. It may even be, as people connected with the movie version keep insisting in interviews, that the shoe-on-the-other-foot approach to this situation will Make You Think...
...outlook, in prescription and also in his penchant for shaving the truth by the clever manipulation of easily grasped images, Newt Gingrich is Reagan's true heir. To appreciate Newt's World, consider just a few of the bombs the new House Speaker lobbed as he issue-surfed through his Dec. 4 appearance on NBC's Meet the Press...
...nature of the name 'Pforzheimer.' Hilary S. Suzawa '97 crystallized the feeling: "I understand that the Pforzheimers have done a lot for the University, but isn't it a little long?" she asked. "Pforzheimer, the Pfabulous house with the Pfunny name." One wonders whether students would have had such clever things to say if North had become 'Winchester' or 'Somerset...
...addition to being a deft humorist, Hughes is also an intellectual and radical bandit. Chic but never showy, Hughes treats nothing as sacred in her clever analysis. At one point during a conversation, a pause ensues as the actors look deeply introspective. A voice over says, "You are now witnessing a Pinteresque pause. If this were a Pinter play, there would be a lot of these." There are also "commercials" during the play spoofing consumerism and suburbia...