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...talk so crisp that it borders on brusqueness. He has little patience with incompetence. When a subordinate once tarried too long over an explanation, Rumsfeld snapped: "Come back when you have something to say." He projects an air of aloofness; he also creates the impression that he is too clever by half, that he coolly evaluates everyone he sees. "Each time you meet him, it's for the first time," says a White House aide. Yet Rumsfeld's intense, controlled style is a nice counterbalance to Ford's fondness for relaxed good fellowship...
...determined pursuit of a viable co-existence with the Soviets, Kissinger looks like a ruthless power grabber-or a clever maneuverer. Maybe that is what...
...good job pacing the show, executing well the transitions between serious and comic moments. The scene where Georgie tries to orchestrate his first wife's departure ("Give it the Cohan touch...Play the sad scene against a happy background," he tells her) is particularly effective. Joe Mobilia's clever sets, all emerging from a revolving backdrop, simplify Minahan's task by smoothing the transitions between scenes...
This is a tinderbox of a play blazing with wit, paradox, parody and, yes, ideas. It is exhilaratingly, diabolically clever. The bloodline of Wilde and Shaw is not extinct while Tom Stoppard lives...
...never seen, showed an Israelite woman, Jael, luring an enemy into her tent, then driving a nail into his head while he slept. The fact that the prosecution did not use the strip, contended Paul, a persistent court critic, only bolstered his cynicism. Given an undistinguished prosecutor and a clever defense attorney with money, a trial, Paul says, can become a "charade...