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...designated nuclear-free zone. While the President stood garbed in a scarlet-and-purple academic gown, preparing to receive an honorary doctor of laws degree, some 2,000 faculty, students and other protesters staged a demonstration about half a mile away. Unperturbed, Reagan displayed his own gift for Irish gab, mixing praise for Irish literature and culture with applause for efforts to find a peaceful solution to the sectarian strife in neighboring Northern Ireland...
...family: the patiently loving wife, played with unsentimental fortitude by Kate Reid in a performance in its way as awesome as Hoffman's; the sons who are Willy bifurcated, with Biff (John Malkovich) inheriting the dreaming genes, Happy (Stephen Lang) the gift of delusory gab, but with both lacking their father's annealing fire. Miller has said that at its heart Salesman is "a love story between a man and his son, and in a crazy way between both of them and America." As the wounded party in that triangle, Malkovich gives a subtly textured performance in which...
...pianist). B.A. from Harvard, Ph.D. in sociology from University of Chicago. Former assistant professor of psychology at Harvard. Author of 22 books, mostly about the disadvantaged and disenfranchised: abused children, the elderly, the indigent and the handicapped. His commitment is incontrovertible. So why has he given up teaching to gab with Phyllis Diller about her facelifts? "I feel strongly that this is the way to enlighten people," Cottle insists. "I'm trying to preserve my inquiry into human behavior through new media." Although Up Close is taped in Los Angeles or New York City, Cottle still lives in Brookline...
...domestic tension in the White House. After all, what gives you and the First Lady the right to remain puppy dogs in love way past your Geritol years? (Just a hypothetical question, sir.) We suggest bringing one of your spunkier children to Washington and encouraging him or her to gab with the press about your shortcomings as a parent...
Luciano's only goal in life was to have a good time, and he'd tell you as much if you sat in the box seats behind home plate. He'd tell the players as much too, though him on-field gab got him in trouble with the league office who wished he'd take the game more seriously. Labor and management have a tendency not to see eye-to-eye, but Luciano found his own way to deal with it; he didn't pay the fines...