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With the publication of P.T. Barnum's autobiography in 1855, says Lindberg, the con man in America went public. The rush to grab land, swindle immigrants and kite stock gathered momentum. As a great showman, Barnum hoodwinked the suckers and made them like it. Who could hate a man able to move crowds by changing the exit sign to one that read, "This way to the Grand Egress." His book ratified cynicism as entertainment, if not instruction...
...most carefully reasoned dissections of the New Federalism came from Vermont's Republican Governor Richard Snelling, chairman of the National Governors' Association. While the U.S. should not return to "the pork barrel and grant-in-aid grab bag" that had characterized federal-state relations in the 1970s, Snelling said, neither should "our sacred union of states become a confederation of competitors in which only the footloose can flourish." He assailed Reagan's contention that a person who does not like governmental programs in one state should "vote with his feet" by moving to another. He also criticized...
Sophomore Kathy Busby could also grab a few headlines this winter. Cut from the lacrosse team last year, Busby came out for the track squad with no previous training and by the end of the season had taken the school's 100-meter dash record...
...stage is simple, open, bright-unusual for the generally gloomy Loeb. The lighting is all done in bright pastels, the costumes a glorious grab-bag of chiffon and satin that fluff and swirl with every movement. There's little hint given of time or place; the backdrop consists of neutral sheets of off-white canvas, allowing the colorful figures to stand even more distinctly. No curtain cuts off the view. Instead, a soaring contraption of cheesecloth strips covers without concealing. What minimal scenery the stage holds gradually disappears, leaving the set empty for the final two farces, free...
...since then waterbed patches have continued to sell, respectably if not briskly, and Higgins has stopped being surprised. "After all, they're just the kind of thing we keep an eye out for and grab," he muses now. "We capitalize on people's paranoias...