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...longest-serving member of the Kenya National Assembly, arap Moi is known as "the father of the House" - a pallid echo of Kenyatta's favorite title, "the father of the nation." Says one Western diplomat in Nairobi: "The man's no Kenyatta. But it's rather like the American system of choosing a fairly ordinary guy whom quite a lot of people respect and few really hate...
Count Fonda as a master of masters in precision timing, vocal inflection and revelatory comic gestures. Aside from that, Fonda is part of the nation's memory bank. When he walks on a stage, his footsteps echo with all the roles he has played in theater and films for four decades. Playgoers are not only in his corner; he is indelibly in their hearts. Alexander is not in his league, but neither is her part. To the role of Chief Justice, Larry Gates brings an authoritative gravity of presence. Too bad he cannot dismiss this flimsy dramatic case...
Pepita, ostensibly a biography of Victoria's mother, offered a devastating portrait of Vita Sackville-West's own mother, a "pure undiluted peasant," whose tantrums made austere Knole echo like some Andalusian marketplace. Victoria, wrote her daughter, was "a powerful dynamo generating nothing," an imperious, high-strung woman given to firing her servants on a whim and more turbulent than Lady Macbeth. "I think perhaps you do not realise," Victoria complained to Lord Kitchener in the midst of World War I, "that we employ five carpenters and four painters and two blacksmiths and two footmen...
...autocratic as she can be," charges conservative State Senator Hubert Leon ("Bill") Richardson, who launched the campaign to unseat her. Richardson accuses the judge of poor administration and using judicial appointments to consolidate her own political power. Off the record, a few of her colleagues on the court echo the last complaint. Of Bird's practice of using lower court judges to fill temporary vacancies on the supreme court, one justice says: "There's power building here, and it's under the heading of experimentation...
...where the presiding geniuses at the time were Tiepolo, Canaletto and Guardi. The influence of Tiepolo freed Piranesi's line from cramped meticulousness favored by architectural engravers of the day. The result can be clearly seen in the Morgan show, where sketches for decorative panels and figure studies echo Tiepolo's and Guardi's free draftsmanship...