Word: iran-contra
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Bush: I'm proud of the way you're standing up to that Nunn guy, Johnny. It reminds me of the time I stood up to Dan Rather when he gave me shit about Iran-Contra. I can't believe Nunn's worried about your social life when you were negotiating in Geneva. You'd think he never got turned on by a little piece of ass. I mean, if you're negotiating arms controls with the Ruskies, wouldn't you be getting a little horny, Boydsy...
WASHINGTON--The chief justice yesterday ordered a delay in the start of Oliver North's Iran-Contra trial, but the independent prosecutor and the Justice Department later agreed on a plan aimed at letting the trial go ahead...
...danger of something being performed live is that "mistakes can be made." Real life does not always come out as perfectly as a script. Unfortunately for the witnesses of the Iran-Contra hearings Gelbart's script for Mastergate was never made available to them...
Then again, Gelbart received a great deal of help. He based much of his script on transcripts from the Iran-Contra hearings and from Watergate events. The transcripts, of course, might be considered funny in themselves. But Gelbart amplifies the circuitous and consistently evasive discourse of today's politicians by writing in what he calls "half-speak," a play on Orwell's double-speak. A perfect example of half-speak comes when key witness Steward Butler (Harry S. Murphy) says (or rather, doesn't say), "I can only reiterate what I've repeated before...
...congressional committee investigation in Mastergate has artfully captured the "whodunit" appeal of the real-life Iran-contra hearings. Set Designer Phillip Jung has fashioned the ART into a virtual facsimile of the congressional chambers. Chandeliers, oak tables, and even the ubiquitous scurrying page serve to paint a faithful picture of reality. To add to the reality or rather, surreality of the committee hearings, a network news investigation is conducted via closed circuit television throughout the play. Five television screens have been hoisted above the different seating sections to effect the play-like hearings, or rather, the hearing-like play...