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...bald Hakim in a wig and glasses and passed him off as a Turk. "It flew," said Secord laconically. At another point, Secord considered Ghorbanifar so untrustworthy that he told the Iranian middleman he would recommend to the U.S. Government that Ghorbanifar be "terminated." Recounted Secord, with the barest ghost of a smile: "He misinterpreted that." The Senate Caucus Room broke up in laughter...
...never has been clearer why The National Enquirer has one of the largest circulations in America. Most Americans would prefer to read about Elvis Presley's ghost than about South Africa or Nicaragua, and those who feel uncomfortable indulging in such nonsense are overjoyed at the arrival of a respectable scandal, at the opportunity to turn The New York Times into a hotbed of gossip...
...tale transported into the idiom of British skinhead punk rockers of the late 1970s. The play opens with Hamlet (Dean Norris) spray painting the misspelled setting--"DENMAK"--on the wall. This Hamlet spends his time fighting, swilling beer and watching television, so, apropos of his offspring's habits, the Ghost (John Bottoms) grabs his attention by pre-empting an episode of Wheel of Fortune...
...most chilling thing about those women might be their normality, as if they were plump, middle-aged matrons nattering across a backyard fence about their ability to conjure spirits. That very perception of character seems to have guided Geraldine Page in a less malevolent but equally necromantic role, the ghost-summoning Madame Arcati in Noel Coward's larkish Blithe Spirit, which was revived on Broadway last week. The cast includes Richard Chamberlain, Blythe Danner and Judith Ivey, all in good form, but this is Page's show. In a career including eight Oscar nominations, culminating in a 1986 Best Actress...
...medium with the gift of raising the dead. Her manner is so much the grasping fraud that the audience is stunned when she delivers the goods. Indeed, she is stunned herself: there are few funnier sights than Page striding across the stage in pursuit of a ghost whose presence she senses but cannot see, snuffling at the wraith's ectoplasm like a spaniel who just knows a squirrel is somewhere nearby...