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...overcoat and shapka on the Kremlin reviewing stand with Brezhnev (his favorite Soviet) or in a gimmie-cap at a Fourth of July picnic in Des Moines. He mixes an earthy Midwest charm with a trace of Finnish ancestry ("yahs" sprinkle his speech), which makes it difficult to fathom his lingering bad-guy notoriety. But behind the affable grin lie eyes cold and calculating. Perhaps it is this paradox -- the genial great-grandfather and steely communist chieftain rolled into one -- that has made him one of the longest-sitting leaders of a national Communist Party...
What the public truly wants is, of course, impossible to fathom -- especially when it is as diverse as the 10 million people who have seen the Big Three on Broadway or the 72.5 million who have attended worldwide. Mackintosh says, "I have no formula. Any man is lucky to be involved in one major success in a lifetime. To be involved in four defies explanation." One clear lesson does emerge. Certain theatrical tastes may be passe, certain critics disgruntled. For all the doomsaying about the Fabulous Invalid, the joy of theatergoing -- to the right show, done in the right...
...agricultural policy should be required reading for every presidential candidate. O'Rourke may be the first writer to explain the savings and loan fiasco in a manner that keeps you from falling asleep after the first mention of subordinated debt. He also reveals, in terms a mathematical dunce can fathom, the Social Security system's purpose: it's the best way for voting everyone rich...
...aback by American casualness. "I was puzzled by the name Lazy 8," says Harry. "To us 'lazy' means only 'lazy,' as in sleeping off the saki. Now I know that 'lazy' can also mean 'laid-back.' " Kaz, for his part, found the relationship between boss and worker hard to fathom. Used to bowing when meeting a superior, he now greets John Morse, the third-generation Montanan hired to run the Lazy 8, by shouting "Hi, John!" "Yeah, Kaz, you guys gotta get rid of that junk," says Chaffin, offering a lesson in American egalitarianism between bites of a roast beef...
...began to feel guilty. My roommate makes a decision that will bring him years of happiness and fulfillment, a decision that may be the most important he will ever make in his life, a decision the magnitude of which I cannot fathom, and I say, "You're what...