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When he launches into one of his droll, deadpan stories, Brady's Buddha-like face tries to conceal an impish grin, with all the success of a novice poker player hiding a royal flush. He relishes answering questions by formulating quotable one-liners and piling adjectives upon metaphors. Occasionally, when he crosses the line from irrepressibility to irreverence, Brady gets into trouble. Once, aboard the campaign plane as it flew over a Louisiana forest fire, he gleefully shouted: "Killer trees! Killer trees!" The reference to Reagan's campaign gaffe about the contribution of trees to air pollution grounded...
...flow they have. When you rip off 75 tons and don't cripple the group financially, you begin to realize how much money there is in it." Redford and other officials expect the pot smuggling activity to continue increasing in the Gulf Coast area. He adds with a grin: "But we hope to pass it on to Texas...
...backpack. The father stopped suddenly and the child bumped his head. "For an instant," the artist remembers, "it looked as if the child were about to cry. Then his head snapped backward, the kid stared at the sky openmouthed, and his face broke into this great goofy grin. I imagined how he felt. He didn't know that what he was looking at was the sky or that the color was called blue. He only knew that it was beautiful. And I thought, God, just let me be in touch with that baby's feelings...
...there was an audacious wall decoration: a large photograph of a broadly smiling Ronald Reagan, who had challenged Nixon for the 1968 G.O.P. nomination. Moreover, the occupant of the office, Nixon's director of the Office of Management and Budget, often proudly pointed to both Reagan's grin and the handwritten inscription under it: "The smile is for real, thanks to you. In friendship and warm regards, Ron." Said the OMB boss to one visitor: "Now, there is a man who really knows how to cut budgets...
Daniel Stern (who played the gangliest "cutter" in Breaking Away) fixes his character with a goofy, all-American grin that, by play's end, has become an eerie, all too American grimace. Bob Gunton (Perón in the Broadway Evita) is a pinwheel of energy and Cheshire-cat charms. He brings eccentric life to a gallery of characters who are not really characters at all: they are supporting specters in one naive American's gook sonata. They may all be the same person, or no one at all. And in the play's final image...