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...help the audience wade through the play's thicket of historical references is The Common Man. Part Greek Chorus, part Johnny Carson, The Common Man (Elliot Thomson) not only appears in every other scene but also has some of the best lines in the play. Donning the guise of a dozen different rogues, Thomson acts in true Rodney Dangerfield fashion, claiming he doesn't get any respect as the resident commoner. Thomson, however, has no problems gaining the audience's respect. With his sassy sarcasm and bemused wit he has the audience at his feet...
...occasional essays, sometimes leavening abstruse material with sports metaphors. He began a major analytical book on the process of governance 14 years ago, during one of his brief recesses from public service. He treated the work as a secret, showing pieces of it only reluctantly to a few friends. Elliot Richardson, his first Washington mentor, recalls it as "marvelously prescient and penetrating," in part because of Darman's gift for dispassionate analysis. Says Richardson: "Dick never allowed his thinking to be colored by how he wished the situation to come out." The tome is now shelved. Darman wants it forgotten...
...branch has Constitutional authority to make foreign policy, or trying to pretend the disputes are mere partisan politics. Would either be a valid excuse for claiming one policy while carrying out another? It becomes a question of honesty and honor. Would any of us buy a used car from Elliot Abrams? Even if Ollie North would deliver it? Whom can we believe in future administrations...
...CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES (PBS, Dec. 21, 8 p.m. on most stations). Denholm Elliot in Dylan Thomas' tale...
...Elliot Stone, executive director of the Health Data Consortium, refused to draw conclusions from the data, saying his group's goal was to supply information, not shape policy...