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...further appeal to children, Weiner flattened the character's personalities, exaggerating their identifying characteristics to make them simpler and more comical. As Katcharey, Josh Milton takes on the task of marrying off his friend with all the fervent energy of a missionary; Andrew Gould's Omelet, another of Agafya's suitors, who does the best job of making the audience dislike him, shouts, screams, and schemes from the moment of his first appearance. White masks painted on the faces of the actors heighten their stylization, making them cartoon versions of themselves. These masks emphasize the actors' exaggerated facial expressions, making...
...evenhanded thing to say about journals of left and right is that polemical intensity is equally fervent on either front. Yet in the era of Reagan this happens not to be so. The liberal New Republic didn't much like Reagan's State of the Union message but didn't like the Democratic alternative either, and editorially suggested that the times are so tough a little bipartisanship is called for. On the far right the reaction to Reagan was anger at betrayal. John D. Lofton Jr. couldn t wait to express himself in the Conservative Digest...
...which combines the tongue-in-check humor of the groups's style with a comprehensible, even expressive interpretation of the lyrics the Bee Gees mangled with their baffling falsettos. Vocalist Scott Young gives "stayin' live" the feel it needs to work, singing in a deadpan which avoids both the fervent excitement of the Saturday Night Fever version and the desperation which words like "I'm going nowhere, somebody help me!" seem to require. The delivery is perfect, and when the group sings "That's alright, that's O.K. I'll live to see another...
...side was Majority Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee, a believer in conciliation and consensus. On the other was a cadre of fervent right-wingers led by North Carolina's Jesse Helms, a maverick ideologue and veteran obstructionist. Ostensibly the issue was the 5? gasoline tax. But after six postmidnight sessions and four filibusters, the bitter battle became one over party power and personal pride...
...point where he felt he had to do something drastic." In 1976 Mayer was jailed in Hong Kong for attempting to smuggle in marijuana. Although Mayer was deported after serving only a few months, his stay in jail permanently transformed him; back in America he became a fervent antinuclear activist...