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...Masterson. While the romantic leads sing with determined earnestness, their roles do not provide the comic latitude that some of the smaller parts allow. Benjamin Toro, as the fast-talking Nathan Detroit and Karen Hartshorn as Miss Adelaide, his fiancee of fourteen years, are blessed with much juicier material...
...Millis' sound, of course, was commercial enough, but it never rated high on the soul meter, no matter who was actually doing the singing. The whole controversy, in fact, is juicier than any of the duo's music. One thing can be said with certainty of the Millis: nothing so became their leaving like the life...
Gone though he may be, Manuel Antonio Noriega continues to provide work for the new government's auditors. One of the juicier tidbits they claim to have found is that Noriega had a computer wired directly into the national treasury account, into which he could dip at will. He also allegedly supplemented his $8,000 monthly salary and expenses by drawing on the $10,000 generated daily by the country's lottery. Panamanian officials claim that two days before the U.S. invasion, Noriega transferred some $10 million of his own funds from Panama probably to Hong Kong. That money...
Last week Volume II, Means of Ascent, began to run in the New Yorker. The excerpt details a shameless pattern of deceit in L.B.J.'s early career. Among the juicier disclosures is how Johnson, as a noncombatant in World War II, was able to parlay 13 minutes under enemy fire into a Silver Star, which he then had repeatedly presented to himself at public ceremonies. Alice Glass, who according to Caro was Johnson's mistress as well as the lover of one of his most influential supporters, had a more realistic view of Lyndon's war. "I can write...
...brazen, fast-talking, colorful speech of men (rarely women) motivated by avarice. His collaborator on the screenplay, Shel Silverstein, is known for his wonderfully subversive children's verse, as well as some scabrous poems for adults. One would think that between them they could come up with a wittier, juicier script than this...