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They work so well because their creator never looks at them with the eyes of a sociologist or a folk singer. He remains, despite whitening hair and expanding waistline, despite a popularity that has sold 40 million books in 20 countries, that eager high school senior with the chipmunk grin who still contemplates the world as if he were seeing it for the first time. "My four daughters are grown up," he says, "and I'm a grandfather three times. But I'm still one of those oversize kids who say Gee whiz! I say it at least twice...
...spoke to the enraptured employees of Sara Lee, the word was flashed to McFarlane about the terrorists' plans to fly out of Cairo. Onstage, Reagan thundered his ire against deficits and roared another pledge to get Government spending down. "God bless you," he shouted from behind his famous grin. The red-jacketed Deerfield High School band swung into Military Escort, and the crowd cheered. Behind the stage in what had been an employee conference room, McFarlane and his aides waited somberly with their news. The gentle folks of Sara Lee had rented a big desk and hung an ersatz presidential...
Nonetheless, the revival is a triumph. Robards' broad grin and quick-jigging movement at first belie and then reinforce his harrowing depiction of a man obsessed with self-hatred. He rockets around the stage with the febrile energy of a revivalist on skid row, but his every assertion is tinged with mockery. Although he claims to have seen the light, he is on a spree of destruction, not salvation. He wants to deprive his pals of their last shred of dignity, their dreams of resurrecting the past. Hickey was always a sometime drunk, still connected to the world of work...
...Patsy's mother, Ann Wedgeworth gives a strong and lovely reactive performance, and Harris, with his Tom Sawyer grin, convinces the viewer that this goof-off has residues of charm Patsy can find intermittently irresistible. Lange keeps on astonishing. Hefty and bawdy, with a macaw's cackle in good times and a face like a fist in bad, Lange plays Patsy as a cracker Wife of Bath, sated with sexual love and hungry for more. Her Patsy would be a subtle stunner in any season. Right now she is enough to make moviegoers forget the boys and toys of summer...
...President inspired cheerleaders in red miniskirts to strut and squeal as 14,000 North Carolina State students chanted, "U.S.A.! U.S.A. !" Reagan happily egged them on. "Do you want America's tax plan--a fair share for everyone?" he asked rhetorically. The bellowed affirmation brought an election-night grin. Said Reagan: "Something tells me I came to the right place...