Word: cliffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fifteen-year-old Clifford Peache (Chris Makepeace) switches schools and instantly alienates the bullies in his new class. They threaten to mangle him unless he forks over his lunch money. So Cliff finds a bodyguard, hulking Ricky Linderman (Adam Baldwin) who, the rumor goes, has killed a kid, raped a teacher, and shot a cop. Cliff eventually wins over the silent, secretive Ricky, and the two score a rousing--and hilarious--final victory over the bullies who have tormented them since...
...some ways an unlikely alliance, one made not to satisfy the hearts of Republican conservatives but to suit their new sense of pragmatism and their determination to capture the White House. Reagan embodies the hardline, return-to-old-values politics of the ideological purists who marched over the cliff with Barry Goldwater in 1964. Bush, though almost equally conservative, is an offspring of the party's Eastern Establishment, which the G.O.P. ideologues repudiated that same year. United, Reagan and Bush have a solid chance of winning in November. Their victory would help restore the Republican Party as a major force...
...week: "The most important thing is to have a Vice President that the President is comfortable with. The worst thing would be to have a Vice President whom he would have to look at over his shoulder to make sure he wasn't going to push him off a cliff." George Bush is not like that. And Reagan knows...
Without his self-lacerating venom, Jimmy Porter (Malcolm McDowell) would be an intolerable bully. As it is, he humiliates his upper-class wife Alison (Lisa Banes), who hides behind a stiff upper lip and an ironing board. He hectors his live-in friend Cliff (Raymond Hardie), with whom he has some sort of male-bonding kinship. And he browbeats his actress mistress Helena (Fran Brill), who moves in when Alison leaves...
This admirable revival at off-Broadway's Roundabout Theater honors all concerned. Malcolm McDowell stalks the boards with the frustrated fury of a caged lion. There is a poignant dignity in Banes' Alison, a fever in the loins of Brill's Helena, and Hardie's Cliff is the sort of buddy you would want in the front lines. -T.E.K...