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...experienced and confident on international relations. The issue and the threat to U.S. interests in the gulf are clear. On domestic affairs, he holds few strong personal views. Having transformed himself from a progressive Republican into a Reaganite in order to become Vice President, Bush lost his policy compass. On the domestic scene, his strength has been politics, not ideas. Where there is no existing political consensus, Bush has been unwilling to expend any of his political ^ popularity in order to lead the nation...
...place (the environs of the University of Chicago), a wry smile and a knowing bob of the head above a woolly black turtleneck. Nothing as show biz as drum punctuation would suit an enterprise as groundbreaking, mind teasing and -- all right, all right -- history making as Chicago's Compass Theater...
...Compass began as a "storefront theater with educational intentions," the creation of two intellectual insurrectionists, Paul Sills and David Shepherd. The actors who gravitated to it made it into a proving ground for improvisational theater and a sort of comedy cabaret for Mensa members...
...troupe: brainy, unorthodox, funny, demanding and supercilious. He takes up a lot of space in this dishy backstage book: even here, the star system prevails. Despite the author's strenuous attempts at seriousness, the eruptive, disruptive talents who made the theater memorable are the same ones who make The Compass a good read...
Shelley Berman, who broke through to mainstream success, was in awe of Mike , Nichols and enamored of Elaine May. Nichols, a struggling Method actor from New York City, found his metier in improvised comedy and a partner, a lover and a nemesis in May. Everyone at the Compass played for laughs, but of all the hothouse talent there, only Nichols, May and a few others turned out to be playing for keeps. The Compass foundered in conflicting ideologies and ended in a welter of mangled egos and bad feelings. But it pointed the way to a kind of comedic theater...