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...pianist," he says, and he will allow nothing to stand in his way. "I've been known to practice until five in the morning," he continues. "I really find it quite pleasant concentrating for such long periods of time--sort of like running the marathon." He adds with a grin, "Of course the chair helps...
...spasmodic brightness, from the cast members, most of whom deliver very fine performances. As pat, the punchy cynical caretaker of the house. Brian McCue is quite good, but, as in many of his past performances, the seams show. There's a "stagey" quality to his limp, his wry grin, his extravagant gestures: one can see too clearly the thought behind every inflection, perhaps. McCue hoped to play upon Behan's theme of dramatic distance, to make the audience sharply conscious of the fact that they are in a theater viewing a performance. Unfortunately, his characterization only reflects the dull spontaneity...
Something in Reagan has always been lucky; it has been part of his attraction, his charm, the nimbus around him. Reagan's luck has a distinctly American shine; his grin proclaims it, the confident expectation of the happy ending. That may be why the nation was drawn to him. Reagan's vehicle on the journey from Dixon, Ill., to Hollywood to the White House ran on persistence and self-knowledge, all right, but it was also propelled by a breezy admixture of the luck that the country was born with...
CARMEN'S staging does a disservice to some top-flight performances. As Colonel Calverley, the leader of a troop of dragoons whose fiancees have all fallen in love with the poet Bunthorne. William Propp wins over the audience from his first entrance. In one toothy grin, he can look mischievous and still hopelessly bemused, and he handles the perilous patter-song without missing a beat. Carmen's basic idea for staging this number--a list of the ingredients that go into a heavy dragoon--is original and witty: the Colonel sings it on his soldiers' shoulders, lending new meaning...
...first sound of firing, Deaver ducked. The President's grin vanished. He looked startled, bewildered. Instinctively, Agent Parr pushed Reagan's head down, shoved him hard through the open car door. Reagan's head struck the roof of the doorway. Both men landed on the transmission hump ahead of the rear seat, Parr on top of the President. "Take off!" shouted Parr to the driver. "Just take...