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Hamlet's frequent "O God" comes out "O Gahd," and the dramatist's "O Wonderful" has been turned into a Wittenbergian "Wunderbar," and "inexplicable" is mispronounced. On holding Yorick's skull, Hamlet comments, "I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest. "But Walken says, "I knew him, [Long pause] Horatio a fellow of infinite jest." When we reach the Prince's dying words, Walken is so heedless of meter that the beautiful line. "Absent thee from felicity awhile" emerges with an accent on the first syllable...
Despite his political accomplish ments, many Guatemalans remain un comfortable over Rios Montt's religious convictions. "There are two juntas in Guatemala," according to a jest, "a political one and a religious one." Indeed, Rios Montt has brought two elders of his church into the government: Bianci as public relations director and Alvaro Contreras as his private secretary. He frequently seeks the counsel of other elders. Adds James DeGolyer, an elder who has come from the U.S. to help the Guatemalan congregation: "We pray for Efrain and the brothers. Thousands of people are praying for them...
When the mystery of the anonymous official was resolved, a spokesman said that Reagan's remarks were "in jest" and that he agreed with Haig's view. But Haig, by then, was restating his position in response to right-whig dismay over the possibility of involving the Soviets in a Central American settlement. His clarification: "Salvador is at once a global, a regional and a local problem. That does not mean, nor did it ever mean, that the Soviets, or the Cubans for that matter, must be invited to the negotiating table." Said an aide: "The boss...
...majority finally decided it was the last, and so Jim Turner ("I'm not used to all this publicity") faced the cameras and fielded most of the questions. And he had to smile when one reporter asked him, in jest, if he had been practicing that shot...
...idea of postponing the income tax cut brought demurrals from several more conservative board members. Energy Economist James McKie of the University of Texas protested, only half in jest, that as a lifelong member of the middle class he had been counting heavily on the tax cut as being the first such action in years to benefit him directly. Now, said McKie, he supposed he had been right in suspecting all along that it was too good to be true and that something would transpire to snatch away the benefit before he could enjoy...