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...their first entrance many of the characters in The Rivals are interesting, but Sheridan just cannot sustain that interest for two hours. He tried by adding a secondary romance between Faulkland (Andrew Brooks) and Lydia's cousin, Julia (Maeve Kinkead). Brooks is especially good in his portrayal of the contrite and contrary Faulkland, running first hot, then tepid, then cold, then hot again...
...stuck with shit like this? I'm in the Army before so I have to make sure all these guys show up. So what happens? I get stuck with some little junkie who's not even a junkie. He just watches too much fucking television. My cousin, now there's a junkie, and he's in jail where they...
...guilty, guilty; they let me go and said don't do anything like that again. But I did, got kicked out of school and shit, until finally it was either the Army or jail. Seemed like I was always getting caught, you know? I still think it was my cousin, the junkie, you know? Everytime he got into trouble, somebody else would get into trouble. I don't know though, man; one time I choked him until he turned blue when I thought he was the one who told on me--but he never admitted it, the mother fucker...
...next night the dinner featured Congressman Leslie Arends, House whip from Illinois, who is also retiring. Again it was soft and pleasant. They watched Friendly Persuasion, an old movie from the book written by Jessamyn West, Nixon's cousin. And still the thought that Nixon might be forced from office, which permeated all of Washington, did not intrude...
Bokassa's malign authority has seldom been challenged since he deposed his cousin, David Dacko, in a New Year's military coup in 1966. One of his first official acts was to abolish Parliament, the constitution and elections. Today Bokassa is virtually a one-man government. He is not only life President, commander in chief of the armed forces and president of the only political party but, as a result of his periodic Cabinet shuffles, the holder of ten ministerial portfolios, ranging from Defense to Information to Mines. From his subjects he demands ostentatious displays of devotion...