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Publicity Shy--Defense attorneys in the case of a former Northeastern University student suing the Pi Eta Speakers' Club over an alleged rape there two years ago gave a Superior Court judge a number of exhibits to support their motion for a gag order against a lawyer for the plaintiff...
...elements besides that of invective, but the cynicism and nastiness with which the title character skewers 18th-Century French society provide most of this play's merriment. Rameau's Nephew skillfully combines old-fashioned satire with modern expletives, and while this production is saddled by the occasional annoying technical gag, as a game of wicked dialogue the results are delicious...
...Shalhoub is a masterpiece of spite. He rants and raves against the evils of his society but can't escape his hunger for those rich possessions which he claims to disdain. Shalhoub knows how to milk a good joke, but he occasionally drifts into tedium by repeating the same gag or mannerism...
...Yitzhak Shamir appoint David Levy as Israel's Foreign Minister? Because Levy can't say yes to Secretary of State James Baker's peace plan -- he does not speak English. That gag is a sample of many Israelis' reaction to Levy. His fastidious appearance and emotional style of speaking have spawned so many jokes that at least one collection has been published. "One of his problems is that people don't take him seriously," says former Cabinet Secretary Aryeh Naor...
Trump's heavy-handed gag order belied his sunny predictions for the Taj. But he dismisses the notion that he is at any risk. "People think I'm a gambler," he once observed. "I've never gambled in my life. To me, a gambler is someone who plays slot machines. I prefer to own slot machines. It's a very good business being the house." Unless, of course, it's a house of cards, teetering in a strong Atlantic wind...