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Although some candidates--like Rudenstine and Andrus Professor of Genetics Philip Leder '56--were notably camera-shy, others were less coy about having their picture in The Crimson. In fact, after The Crimson ran a photo of Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61, someone from his office called to complain that the photo was unflattering. She promised to send over a better...
...then that the skillful black humor of Durang's script emerges. Chick for one handles this humor deftly--the scene in which Father Donnally denounces the church is delightfully ironic in the context of the devout family he addresses. McDonald also has a fine comic touch; she is wonderfully coy as Margaret, the subtly disparaging mother...
...breeze seemed to be blowing across the TV landscape last spring. The success of David Lynch's wild-at-heart soap opera forced network executives to make a fast reassessment. Twin Peaks defied some of TV's most basic dramatic rules -- it was too murky, too slow moving, too coy about solving its mystery -- yet it attracted a fanatically devoted audience. Viewers, it seemed, were a lot more willing to sample unusual, challenging fare than anyone had expected. Just as All in the Family launched a trend toward taboo-breaking, socially relevant sitcoms and Roots ushered...
MARIO CUOMO A shoo-in against an amateur in New York's gubernatorial election. But third terms tend to be disasters, and the once coy Gov refuses to rule...
...comic overstatement, of course -- but the President was suddenly playing mysteriously coy. After hundreds if not thousands of repetitions that made "read my lips" the most memorable line of the 1988 campaign, Bush last week practically invited Congress to start pushing, with a hint that his lips might now frame something other than a flat no. The President asked congressional leaders to join Administration officials in a "summit" meeting to plan, at long last, a real whack at the runaway budget deficit. His spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater, said Bush wanted the talks to start with "no preconditions" and proceed "unfettered with...