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...almost immediately came under intense pressure to run for mayor from the same Washington power brokers who earlier shunned him as a carpetbagger. But Jackson was wary, suspecting that his political opponents were hoping to bury - him in a no-win job. Jackson's public statements have been typically coy and evasive -- prudent politicians "never say never," he declared -- but privately, for now, he is heeding the counsel of friends and his wife Jackie to stay out of it. Settling into the mayor's office would mean being tied down by the Lilliputian strings of Washington's troubled municipal bureaucracy...
...LADY IN QUESTION. Just what is the pleasure of a drag show? If the leading "lady" is unconvincing, it's gross. If he's too convincing, there's no coy guessing game. And if he's just campy enough, the joke is over in five minutes. Alas, this off-Broadway farce lasts two hours...
...LADY IN QUESTION. What is the alleged pleasure of a drag show? If the leading "lady" is unconvincing, it's gross. If he's too convincing, there's no coy guessing game. And if he's just campy enough, the joke is over in five minutes. Alas, this off-Broadway farce lasts two hours...
...stories (collected this year in The Watch) can attest, he also knows how to write; and like his oil witchery, this gift is % extravagant and natural. His new book is based on notebook jottings he kept for about three years, 1984-87, chasing a quarry that was "shy here, coy there, blatant elsewhere." His father, another petroleum geologist, complained after reading Oil Notes that he didn't learn much from it about finding oil, but to the uninitiated it richly reveals just what that line of work involves. There is no better conversation, spoken or written, than good shop talk...
...springy dancer blessed with a high, light jump, she seemed to grasp the choreographer's oft repeated injunction: respond to the music and "don't think -- do" the steps. Senior ballerina Galina Mezentseva tried to make a romantic story out of this plotless work and as a result looked coy...