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...most difficult lesson that people around a President have to learn is that they are totally dispensable. The moment they begin to believe that they have a right and/or a duty to cling to their jobs is the moment they start downhill...
...four Moliere farces presented by the American Repertory Theatre, takes just the right tack. So many painful versions of Moliere have been produced that it comes as a pleasant surprise to see one carried off with style and enthusiasm. Not that a little bit of age doesn't cling to the faded storylines. But it's not the plots that matter nearly so much as the mood, the atmosphere. The ART company infuses the comedies with much of the same spontaneity and lively froth that Moliere's own crew must have brought to them in 17th century France...
...Monday debate Stockman was supported against Regan by Presidential Aides James Baker and Edwin Meese, as well as by Murray Weidenbaum, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Martin Anderson, Assistant for Policy Development. They all urged the President to cling to his goal of a balanced budget by going along with tax increases. Stockman stressed that Reagan had spoken publicly of the balanced budget too often to abandon it. But the Treasury Secretary shrewdly argued that the President had only presented a balanced 1984 budget as a target, until pushed by reporters into viewing it as a promise...
...more romantic love than the one offered by her living (and drippy) beau who totes a camera and nasally announces his affection. Indeed, Marianna's sister, played by Nini Pitts, seems more frightened of the spectre than does Marianna. Rather, Marianna is victimized by her visions of romance which cling to her and draw her from her sleep. How such notions could possibly threaten her, we do not know; nor are we shown why she is so enamoured of Marion. For Marianna seems a petty and spoiled young woman, a willful coquette, whose illness results from self-delusion, not from...
...hears stories like this when sitting around at the tennis club, or some similarly benign place, of an August afternoon. They are no more than extended anecdotes, these tales, but spun out at a certain lazy length with persuasive details added by a sympathetic storyteller, they sometimes cling to the mind in a way that grander works do not. Reminding us that quite ordinary lives can be overwhelmed by extraordinary passions, these domestic dramas often thrill their listeners with romantic openings only to chill them with bleak conclusions...