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That synchronization is broken when the male chorus comes scrambling on in identical blue business suits. All the flurry and the coy comic extravagance of having Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner (Baritone James Billings), carry on like an insurance salesman who has been crushed beneath his quarterly projections set a pace that the singers cannot match. Whatever purists may have thought were its vulgarizations and deficiencies, Joseph Papp's Broadway presentation of The Pirates ofPenzance was all of a brassy piece. This Mikado is too fitful, too ambitious, perhaps-Dare we even whisper it, risking the rage...
...promised Texas Congressman Phil Gramm that Gramm could make one of the nominating speeches for him at the Republican Convention in Dallas next year-then, eyes atwinkle, added the inevitable qualification: if he chooses to run. To newsmen he jokes, "There is a 50% chance." He has been equally coy with his closest aides. In a limousine returning to the White House after a speech by Reagan to staunch conservatives, Political Aide Edward Rollins told him that what his audience had wanted to hear was a declaration of candidacy. End of conversation: Reagan stared silently out the window...
...illness. Turner reportedly described Up Close as "the National Enquirer of talk shows," and refused to give permission to air his segment. But most Cottle guests (who receive talk-show scale of $200 to $400) know the ground rules: show and tell and don't be coy...
...Reagan and O'Neill are playing coy. The President, who bridles at talk of tax increases, last week rejected a taunting suggestion from Kansas Republican Senator Robert Dole, another commission member, that Reagan is "frightened to death about Social Security." Still, Reagan declared, "We are waiting for the commission to come back and tell us, could they agree on a plan." O'Neill, who is loath to consider a limit on benefits, nonetheless has said that he will go along with one if the commission's Democrats* endorse it. But he too takes the position that...
...shopping bag ladies--the women who after a tough day at Bloomingdale's must maneuver through the streets and into their taxicab overburdened with purchases. The gist of the column was a breathless admiration for those specially blessed women who manage never to appear overburdened--and a coy suggestion that these women must have legions of servants secretly following a few steps behind and carrying all their bags. More savvy still, they may even have all their purchase delivered...