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...Clare B. Hard ham Paso Robles, Calif...
...dinner ends. Carter returns to his study. His secretary has gone home. His press staff, Frank Moore and Ham Jordan, are drinking beer and discussing the energy meeting in Jody Powell's office. It is shortly after midnight when Carter leaves the study. He carefully turns out the lights...
From then on toward midnight, he tries, in his own words, "to prioritize." Prioritizing takes him into the Oval Office to talk each day with the President and to drop in on his next-door neighbor Vice President Mondale. Ham and Fritz have meshed in a manner rare in White House history; each savors the guts of things rather than the trappings...
...Idler (354-9489), beneath the Blue Parrot (lest you think me unimaginative, I mean a depressed bird), Robin Walsh is "soft and gutsy at the same time" when she sings and plays acoustic guitar tonight. Friday it's Lenny Solomon, who is still trying to remove the ham in last week's Idler Special from his teeth, followed by Reeve Little on Saturday and Sunday. Monday, Chris Rhodes and Koko Dee do whatever they did last Monday, only crunchy, and Tuesday the Brattle Streetband performs humorous British Isles folk music. Wednesday, Jon McAuliffe "does a lot" with the "rasping, Dylan...
...insane. The play is a wild conglomeration of mistaken identities, costume changes (performed on stage), the disappearance of characters who never existed, and other madcap antics, all of which are somehow untangled in the final scene. Highlight performances are given by Leo-Pierre Roy and David Reiffel, who ham it up beautifully as incompetent representatives of the psychiatric profession...