Word: girls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is the Vice President who ambushed a television anchorman live on the evening news, then bragged about it for weeks. That same month, Mr. Tough Guy struck again. Bush was speaking at an Iowa high school when he fielded a hostile question from a girl holding a "Jack Kemp for President" brochure. Bush seized the pamphlet and tore it to shreds...
...affair with Senator William Borah, not of her marriage to Speaker of the House Nick Longworth. It is not this home truth that evokes sympathy for Longworth, himself a philanderer and a drunk (as well as a superb amateur violinist), but the fact that he deeply loved the little girl. He died when she was six, however, and Paulina died of a combination of pills and alcohol, presumably a suicide, at 31. Alice lived on alone for another 23 years, toughing it out on good bones and good brains, making jokes for reporters...
...them now, the good ole days when activists were really committed, when things really got done. When protest got 4 people murdered by the National Guard at Kent State. When during the takeover of University Hall in 1969, "(i)n the reception room of Dean Glimp's office, a girl stood with blood trickling down from a cut in the center of her forehead. A state trooper stepped up...and steadied her chin with his thumb. The tenderness of this grasp was deceiving. With his free hand, he raised his long club high over his head, and brought..the club...
...meat of the play, of course, is Woody's one-liners, Choice morsels include, "I used to get migraines, but my analyst cured me. Now I get tremendous coldsores," "I'd sell my mother to the Arabs for that girl," and "My parents never got divorced, though I begged them to." There simply isn't a joke-free minute in the whole script...
...cameos are real scene-stealers, though, with first-place going hands down to Lara Palevitz as Felix's dream version of his yet-to-arrive blind date. Palevitz plays her as a paragon of the 1940's cigarette girl ultra-bimbo and draws many a chortle...