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Without notifying the President in advance, Kirkpatrick announced her plans last week to step out of public life. "I am absolutely not being coy about it," she said. "I have an intention and that is my intention." Well, perhaps. But only a couple of hours later the U.N. Ambassador ordered a wire-service reporter dressed down for making her decision sound irrevocable in his story, and indeed she did not specifically rule out taking another post in the Reagan Administration. Many Washington insiders concluded that Kirkpatrick was engaged in calculated job jockeying. Said an Administration official...
Paolo Carozza's Ernest, by contrast, lacks some of the necessary dash. Whether this is inherent in the part or not, he is, unfortunately, upstaged by Algernon. As Jack's beloved Gwendolyn, Anne Higgins is marvelously coy, delivering her studied and empty superlatives with necessary aplomb...
...minister described last week's hastily arranged gathering as "just a meeting of old friends." But as everyone present knew, the coy assessment by Mani Said al-Oteiba of the United Arab Emirates understated the gravity of the situation. Ministers from six of the 13 members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries huddled for 1½ days last week at Geneva's Inter-Continental Hotel to devise a scheme to halt the slide in oil prices. The cartel's current crisis began two weeks ago, when OPEC member Nigeria followed price cuts made by nonmembers Norway...
...hiya-big-boy bathing suits for women that transform breasts into medium-range ballistic missiles; and sarongs for everyone. But there were also roomy, temperate suits for both sexes, and a selection of loungewear and splendor-in-the-grass sunsuits that managed to be forthrightly sexy without turning coy. It was shrewd and prototypical Gaultier; in short: clothes for yucks and clothes for bucks...
...naturalism and artifice. But Sheba remains a showcase for poignant acting. Knight attains a lumpish sweetness but does not sentimentalize her character as a victim. Bosco has little to do until his whisky-sodden storming, but radiates the disappointment that beclouds the house. Dillon blends coy charm with unhesitating selfishness...