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CONRACK. Novelist Pat Conroy (Prince of Tides) has helped turn his autobiographical tale, The Water Is Wide, about a young white teacher and rural black pupils, into a sweet Jon Voight movie and, now, a poignant musical at Washington's Ford's Theater...
...Teeter, the 1992 campaign is shaping up like a recurring nightmare. It was 16 years ago that Teeter, serving as Gerald Ford's campaign pollster, watched while the incumbent Republican President came under relentless attack from a more conservative Ronald Reagan. Although Ford eventually won the nomination, he was badly damaged by the intramural fight and went on to lose a close general election to Jimmy Carter...
...wacky editorial misunderstanding, the dissent by Liam T.A. Ford and Matthew J. McDonald on Monday's Opinion page contained an error. It was implied that the authors wanted simply "to cripple federal regulations. " In fact, they want Pat Buchanan to lead a "search-and-destroy mission" against such regulations...
Maria the Model (Hannah Feldman), unfortunately dilutes some of this cohesiveness. Kind of like a Ford engine in a Ferrari, she never fully realizes Maria's character. Her stage presence is awkward, self-conscious at times, and she can't quite seem to match the grace and speed with which the other actors shift gears...
CAREER:Editorial Writer, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 1962-64, then assistant editorial editor 1964-65; executive assistant to Richard Nixon at his law firm, then White House special assistant and speechwriter 1969-72, special consultant 1972, a post he held throughout the first few months of Gerald Ford's term. Columnist, radio and television commentator and panelist, beginning in 1975; director of communications, Reagan White House...