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...Texas joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in arguing that the sanctions would impose an unfair burden on farmers and small businessmen. For all of these reasons, and simply because the Simpson approach is so comprehensive, there is likely to be heated wrangling when the House takes up its companion version next month...
Apart from the lustrous leading players, each major-minor role is played in stellar fashion. Stephen Moore makes of Bertram's boon companion, Parolles, a pompous, endearing rogue and braggart, a mini-Falstaff. The countess's clown (Geoffrey Hutchings) is Lear's fool, in wit though not in pathos. And Robert Eddison, as adviser to the King, is an elegant paradox, a wise Polonius...
Innings: A Baseball Companion...
...favors for his hosts, the disclosures were the political equivalent of a tee shot out of bounds for the House Democratic leadership, which has been trying to portray the Reagan Administration as beholden to the country-club set. On two occasions, the Post reported, Rostenkowski's golfing companion was House Speaker Tip O'Neill. The amiable Rostenkowski, who is more comfortable with the ward politics of Chicago than the intricacies of tax legislation, was rarely in Washington the first few months of this year. "We were beginning to wonder," says a colleague, "if he was still a Congressman...
...Late Innings: A Baseball Companion, Roger Angell...