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...written and sung some of the smoothest and best contemporary pop, yet he remains a performer in search of a tradition, a megabucks pilgrim looking for roots he never had and a place in which to settle. Rock really is not his neighborhood; his fur-lined melodies and forthright sentimentality make him stand out among rockers like a Coupe de Ville at a demolition derby. Diamond has been a smash act in Las Vegas, but he is neither as smooth as Sinatra, as cloying as Wayne Newton nor as annoying as Steve Lawrence...
...that Watt's "actions and statements identify him as an aggressive, shortsighted exploiter rather than a far-sighted protector of the nation's air, land and water." But the Senators found the criticism easy to disregard. Moreover, Watt seemed to impress them with his conciliatory tone and forthright expressions of love for the land that he will manage. Said he: "I was born, raised and educated on the plains of Wyoming at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. I know the grandeur and beauty of open space and mountains...
...disability" resulting from cancer of the liver; in Hartford, Conn. Daughter of immigrants from Italy's Piedmont region, she rose through the state legislature and the U.S. House of Representatives, marrying a school principal, Thomas Grasso, and rearing a daughter and son along the way. In a typically forthright announcement, she said she would yield to Lieutenant Governor William A. O'Neill as of Jan. 1 because she no longer had "the stamina or the endurance" to handle...
Anne Walsh as Maddie faces a tougher challenge in fleshing out Stoppard's lightly sketched drawing of this bashful yet forthright, dimwitted yet wise "woman of the people." This character is difficult to play because Stoppard uses it as both a center-spring for the plot and as a mouthpiece for his moralizing, and the two are at odds. Walsh succeeds only half-way: her sluttish, gum-chewing, boneheaded secretary is so convincing that when she starts to write the parliamentary committee's draft report, you feel the words are coming from Stoppard--because you know they couldn't come...
That is certainly not the case. Most Americans are dependable and forthright-most of the time. Enough people fall short of square dealing, however, to have left Americans a keen hunger for someone to trust. While political lying may have entered an "era of mass production," as Critic Robert Adams says in Bad Mouth, the problem of deception goes far beyond politics. Many people in academia, in science, in engineering, in medicine, in law, in the crafts-all have been caught in the act of exercising the scruples of a fly-by-night lightning-rod salesman. Skulduggery turns...