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...supporters were infuriated. Said Michigan Governor William Milliken: "This would be very, very costly in political terms." In an emotional speech, Mary Crisp, who was being ousted as co-chairman of the Republican National Committee because of her praise of John Anderson, accused the party of suffering from an "internal sickness" and warned that it might lose the election. Remarked an irritated Reagan: "Mary Crisp should look to herself and see how loyal she has been to the Republican Party." He added: "I don't think this ERA is a live-or-die issue...
Just after 6 p.m. and again at 10 p.m. every weekday, crisp white letters on Soviet television screens announce Today in the World, a 15-minute blend of international news and commentary that is one of the most watched shows in the U.S.S.R. Vladimir Dunayev, 51, one of Today's regular hosts, describes the day's events-half smiling here at the absurdity of Western posturing on the Afghanistan question, curling his lip there to show contempt for U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. The commentator is low key but sardonic, a bit like David Brinkley. But Dunayev...
Usually, the green innocence of spring gives it a preliminary shape. The lazy days of summer mold it. Finally, crisp autumn eves decide it. "It," of course, is the pennant race...
...crisp, fresh, lavender dress, is sitting in her small, neat-as-a-pin duplex. "Something about the in-kind program came with the tax notice. I hadn't worked since I had been in the wheelchair, but I knew I could." Iva is dark-haired, feisty and determined. She went to city hall, hired on as a tax division clerk, particularly to process parking tickets. When Hargreaves offered to have her picked up and returned home each day, Iva rebelled: "I'll take care of myself." An independent Vermont Yankee, she drives...
Grizzard's Ralph was an eternal Lit le Boy Blue but capable of last-ditch courage; Luckinbill is simply an animated puppet dangling jerkily from unseen strings. Baxley's Emily was managerial yet vulnerable; Feldon is as crisp as a fresh ice cube and just about as cool whenever she melts. Under Weidner, pauses became gravamens of a lost chord of happiness. Theodore Mann directs Past Tense as if he were presiding over a domestic roller derby. It is a valuable reminder that the play you see is not always the one the au thor actually wrote...