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...explained to me--soaks up puns unobtrusively, "the way bread soaks up puns unobtrusively, "the way bread soaks up wine." Almost every line in the script has a joke in it somewhere, often so naturally imbedded in the basic joke of the plot (quailing before Otto da Fe, the Earl of Fourflush who announces that he won't be satisfied "until everyone is dead," one of the heroines vainly offers so "give you my silver gold-piece") that it's more than likely to slip by unnoticed, or to register only a few minutes later, when the show has already...
...scenes that often plague this kind of loosely jointed farce--and a number of the actors, in a show not traditionally renowned for unusual brilliance in this respect, achieve more than just competence. Lindsay Davis makes a fine Colleen Allcars, Mark Kiely is impressively diabolical as the evil earl and Jonathan Emerson as his equality villainous accomplice ("efficient, but a strange woman...she's donating her body to science fiction"), and Matthew Gamser is appropriately straightforward as the bassest soprano since The Love for Three Oranges. Best of all, I think, is Peter Zurkow as the perpetually befuddled queen...
...that, Nixon's personal papers were in many cases not worth the paper they were printed on. Crucial material that might have proved useful to historians was missing. Gone, for example, were files of correspondence with Presidents John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Herbert Hoover, Chief Justice Earl Warren, House Speaker Sam Ray burn and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Some boxes were filled with nothing but newspaper clippings. Newman proved to be an accurate prophet when he once wrote about his profession: "I assure you that there isn't any dodge that some sharp mind...
...gardens of that little Eden at Blandings or to guffaw as the omniscient Jeeves pulled addlepated Bertie Wooster out of the clutches of his Aunt Agatha or the local constabulary. Wodehouse addicts had their own favorite characters. The author himself confessed he bent toward Lord Emsworth, the daffy ninth Earl of Blandings, who spent most of his time escaping through the hedges from his domineering sister Constance or making sure that his beloved pig, the Empress of Blandings, won first prize at the local fair. Others, perhaps a majority, preferred the stories about Jeeves, who, with a "voice as dignified...
...example of how the commission did work when ostensibly investigating, we have the interrogation of Jack Ruby. Earl Warren and then-Congressman Gerald R. Ford went to the Dallas jail in which Ruby was imprisoned after shooting Oswald and asked whether he had any information to impart to the commission. Ruby replied that he had a great deal to say, but that he would only testify in Washington, afraid that if he talked while in the very jail in which he killed Oswald, his own life would he in danger. After refusing to transport Ruby to Washington, despite the fact...