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...curtain is down on the summer's Iran-contra drama, and Ronald Reagan is getting ready for his final 17-month run in Washington, which could be a corker. In the Oval Office last week for an interview with TIME, he looked healthier and more vigorous than recent press accounts have portrayed him. Yet he has been burned and battered by events and people, and his caution was like armor -- a shield that every modern President adopts eventually, no matter what vows he makes about open communion to the end. "There's always a target painted on the Chief Executive...
...Reagan spoke privately that day about his nine-month Iran-contra ordeal, one had the feeling that nothing had changed, yet everything was different. He remains stubborn and unbowed and believing and upbeat; he refuses to hold a grudge. The essence of his talk in the afternoon light of the Oval Office was that a foreign policy operation, born of the best of intentions, went wrong. But the damage, he is certain, will fade. Reagan is calling for the nation to forget and move into the future. Details be damned; unanswered questions be hanged. The great congressional inquisition is finished...
...lantern-jawed king of the stand-up circuit, had dropped by to try out some new material. Dressed in a silk shirt, faded jeans and Western boots, he barreled through 20 minutes of jokes, some of them written only that day and jotted down on note cards. On the Iran-contra hearings: "Senator Inouye . . . now there's a strict-looking guy. He's the principal of the United States of America." On Fawn Hall, Jessica Hahn and Donna Rice: "I love the way they describe these women as part-time models. I brush my teeth every morning -- does that make...
Some familiar elements are missing from the stand-up scene. Despite a flurry of jabs at news events like the Iran-contra testimony, committed political satire is rare. So is X-rated material, with a few notable exceptions like screaming Sam Kinnison's. "The networks want comedians to work clean," says Richard Fields, owner of Catch a Rising Star, a Manhattan comedy club. Indeed, many young comics regard stand-up comedy less as a goal than as a stepping stone. "People today are not just shooting to be * headliners," says Dennis Perrin, a New York-based comic and writer. "They...
...effort to put the Iran-Contra fiasco behind him, President Reagan has placed a treaty with Gorbachev on intermediate-range nuclear missiles at the top of his agenda. By concluding such an agreement, Reagan believes he can salvage a powerful legacy in foreign affairs; he can be the first President in history to achieve an actual nuclear arms reduction treaty with the Soviets...