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...paper's Sunday magazine, he took over the Style section in 1976. Coffey won a reputation as an imaginative editor who had a deft hand with journalists as well as copy. An intense worker who sometimes called writers late at night to discuss stories, Coffey shook most of the fluff out of Style's pages and introduced more late-breaking news. Named an assistant managing editor in charge of national news in December, Coffey was considered a contender to succeed Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee...
...McDonough had stuck to nostalgic personalities, they play might have succeeded as amusing fluff. But the two principles have to carry the weight of the dramatic message, to the detriment of their performances. Mark Cuddy's Petruchio has a reason to deliver his lines like a third-rate caffeine-crazed vaudevillian, Since that is what he is supposed to be. But Kirsten Giroux, who plays Katherina, is clearly a talented if traditional Shakespearean actress, which makes her the wrong person for his role. Her mugging, posting and self-consciously exaggerated delivery make no sense; her gestures and poses look like...
OSCAR WILDE'S MASTERPIECE "The Importance of Being Ernest" is as self-conscious a piece of fluff as ever there was. The play, indeed, is full of references to its own triviality. When one character advises another, "In matters of grave importance, style not sincerity is the vital thing," she could be talking about Wilde's own philosophy...
...race has also absorbed some of the personality of the Presidential campaign. When not indulging in character assassination Jepsen has run a fluff campaign, capitalizing on his senatorial looks (he lost a lot of weight before the campaign). He has basked in the glow of Reagan's popularity in the best Shamiesque style, faithfully toeing the Republican line on every issue. His best known display of party spirit (or political pusillanimity, depending on one's perspective) occurred in 1981 during the Senate debate over the sale of AWACS planes to Saudi Arabia. Jepsen had loudly announced that he opposed...
...debates will not prove enough to overcome the President's large lead in the polls. This comes, of course, as part of the Reaganite strategy to convince us that indeed Mondale is the "loser." But it is the American people who will be the losers if they believe this fluff, because Reagan's victory will be the triumph of our own worst instants. It will symbolize the sacrifice of the role of a compassionate government on the altar to greed as symbolized by a few less dollars in income tax returns...