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...partisan commentators look to this scandal as vindication of Abraham Lincoln's words, "you can't fool all the people all the time." And those are fine words to vindicate. But the election of another ardent conservative, Ronald Reagan, after the humiliation that was the Nixon Presidency, would seem to prove that while you can't fool everyone all the time, you certainly can do so when their collective memory fades...
Watching Reagan's tragic descent, however, inspires only one thought in the audience: that fool has done it again. It is a feeling of pathos, not of real tragedy. Consequently, this new production fails to evoke a true feeling of suspense; the audience knows full well how the plot will end. All that remains to be seen is how the action will resolve itself in getting to an all-too-predictable destination...
That same local entertainment writer wants to set up a meeting between the two of us. Me and her, like the rubber man and the bearded lady. Wonderful. If he can find her--and I've got my fingers crossed that he can't--I'll play the fool. It'll help out a fellow journalist...
Wanda: Well, a contract might stipulate that the husband agrees to do half the vacuuming and child rearing or take the wife out to dinner at least twice a week for the length of the marriage. Then there are sexual provisions. One contract might specify that the husband can fool around only when he is out of town. Some agreements say the husband or wife gets a night or two out each week with no questions asked, and many contracts insist that the bride and groom detail their sexual life histories before the wedding...
Ironically, Americans have ample evidence that Reagan is more arrogant than ignorant, more a devious liar than a genial fool. As Christopher Hitchens pointed out in a recent issue of The Nation, when Reagan told Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir that he himself had liberated Jews from the Nazi death camps he was not simply making a blunder. Reagan never left the country during the War, and he knows it; it's hard to confuse Hollywood with Auschwitz. By the same token, when Reagan claimed he had received a message "from Pope John Paul urging us to continue our efforts...