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Director Joan Channick has a keen sense of tone and pacing, and, for the most part, she guides her actors through the play's precipitous shifts of mood without any loss of balance. Her success is ensured by a brilliant cast, who play their roles--and the roles within their roles--to the hilt...
...golf course. Two of them-Bob Coder, from Florida, and his wife Virginia-strolled out the front door of the Lake Victoria Hotel and there, to their surprise, was President Field Marshal Dr. Idi Amin Dada. Two British newspaper colleagues were with the President, who was plainly keen to show both us and President Jimmy Carter that Americans living in Uganda are in no danger...
...obscure member of Carter's transition team; now he occupies a grand office with a fireplace overlooking the presidential swimming pool. He promises a first-class report: "We're not going to settle for nickel-and-diming." Most other task-force members are keen-minded generalists in the Schlesinger mold, more schooled in problem solving than in energy...
...driveway or a roadside culvert. Occasionally they would tear onto the shoulder of the road, skimming around a car or truck before hurtling back into the ditch. Driving a 450-lb. snowmobile at high speed on rough terrain is like riding a brahma bull-an exercise in keen judgment and balance. As Driver Al Bergquist, an Illinois farmer in his saner moments, told TIME Correspondent Dick Woodbury, "You're whipping along at 70 m.p.h. and you charge over a hill, and you just don't know what's there...
Because of the lack of high expectations from Carter, expressions of enthusiasm-or even keen interest-are rare. Many middle-class people seem more preoccupied with the latest fads...