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Insecurity? Nobody believes me when I say this, but journalists have been the single most insecure group of human beings since God, as a gag, invented the Chicago Cubs. Nobody believes me when I say this because (I'll concede) it seems absurd. Peter Jennings, whose haircut costs more than your monthly car payment, insecure? Diane Sawyer, whose haircut costs more than Peter Jennings' monthly car payment, unsure of herself? All those reporters who race to the scene of an airplane crash and shove their tape recorders in the faces of the survivors and ask them how they feel--those...
Last Friday night the cast and crew of 'Rumors' faced a gag they weren't really prepared for. As one of the characters was walking offstage, the door he was leaving through fell completely off its hinge, leaving him turning the knob on a large piece of plywood. Nevertheless, the cast coped well, even ad-libbing lines about the dismembered door. By the second act the door had been firmly reattached, and the cast resumed acting out what it had rehearsed...
...Silverstein as Ken, the anxious lawyer, also shines, particularly during his bout with deafness: his superbly comic expressions render even the old gag of mishearings and misunderstandings a la Cuthbert Calculus extremely funny. Daniel Goor '97 almost steals the second act as the sardonic, tough-talking Officer Welch, but Amblad's Lenny makes a sweeping comeback with the rip-roaring rigmarole that brings the farce to its zany climax...
Nevertheless, the association is promulgating a code that prohibits its 1,000 member HMOs from enforcing gag rules and employing such practices as drive-by mastectomies, on pain of being kicked out. In what looks like an if-you-can't-lick-'em-join-'em move, the association has even announced support for Clinton's panel. Pisano hopefully predicts a "thoughtful" study--leading, presumably, to mild recommendations...
...there "gag clauses" that keep a doctor from recommending treatment or criticizing the plan...