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...deck of the U.S.S. Fairfax County, while you waited for liberty to begin, you watched a press conference on the pier below. You thought it was a dog and pony show, and you would tell a reporter that later. Down below you could hear your commanding officer telling a TV woman, who wanted to know if you planned to tear the town apart: "Marines are always told to act in a disciplined manner. They will act like Marines." You ached to get off that ship...
...farce reaches unbelievable extremes when Lady Bracknell terrorizes the obsequious John Worthing, who had hoped to marry her stylish daughter, Gwendolyn Fairfax (Jacqueline Riggs). As she grills him on his eligibility with questions like "Do you smoke?" his meager replies sound more and more unrealistic--"I'm afraid I do," he squeaks, and she answers dictatorially, "Good--a man should always have an occupation." Worthing says he has no parents and Bracknell responds, "To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune, to lose both is carelessness." In order to be considered for Miss Fairfax's husband he "must...
...full cry after a scraggly fox. Environmentalists would have jumped out at him from behind every hedge, waving placards. A "save the foxes" society would have been organized. Columnist Ellen Goodman would have rushed to detail the plight of the ill-fed, ill-housed, ill-treated foxes of Fairfax County. Newsmagazines might have noted that photographs of Washington mounting his horse revealed he had wide hips. The temptation would have been too much: "President Washington, displaying a broad beam and a narrow mind, last week chased a 10-lb fox to an unseemly death in the lovely hills of Virginia...
...those in Virginia, Texas, New Hampshire, North Carolina and South Carolina, passed laws designed to permit school districts to charge tuition to replace lost aid. New Jersey has such a bill awaiting the Governor's signature, and New York is considering similar legislation. In the summer of 1981, Fairfax County, Va., became the first district to levy a tuition charge (starting at $3,000 per student) on federally connected dependents living at the Army's Fort Belvoir. The Justice Department filed suit to block the move, but the crisis was defused when Congress passed a continuing budget allocation...
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