Word: hewett
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Beyond the financial and strategic considerations, the pipeline has become a matter of national pride for the Soviets. "The net effect of the sanctions may. be rather small on the pipeline," predicts Sovietologist Edward Hewett of the Brookings Institution in Washington, "but in terms of U.S. relations with Western Europe, it could be rather serious." The Reagan Administration may be in for considerably more trouble with its allies than it bargained for. -By Frederick Painton. Reported by Gisela Bolte/Washington and Lawrence Malkin/Paris
Academic experts warn that one of the first consequences of such action would be to reduce the little leverage that the West has on Warsaw and Moscow. Says Edward Hewett of the Brookings Institution: "A default would prompt the loss of what influence we have." The move would also hurt the reputation of Western bankers. Adds a European banking authority: "A Western declaration of default would make the Soviets chuckle. The Russians would be able to discredit the West, particularly in the Third World, where such action would be regarded as callous capitalism...
...takeoff on 1930s movie musicals. Using Grauman's Chinese Theater as aspic, it captures the clichés, the formulas, the juicily idiotic emotional punch lines of the period. Singing with slyly ironic comic abandon, Jeanette MacDonald (Peggy Hewett) fondles a life-size cardboard cutout of Nelson Eddy, never the most mobile of performers...
...formidable embonpoìnt, Margaret Dumont. The program note says that this exercise in dementia is "loosely based on Chekhov's The Bear." Groucho (David Garrison) is the shysterish Samovar the Lawyer. Chico (Frank Lazarus) is a larcenous tongue-in-cheeky footman to the imperious Mrs. Pavlenko (Hewett), the Dumont role. Perfectly at ease as Harpo, Priscilla Lopez is a creature from another planet, who at one wonderfully zany moment plucks out the inevitable harp solo on the spokes of an upside-down bicycle...