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...role of Elsie, the youthful ideal of maidenhood, is a flat one to begin with, and Ellen Burkhardt offers little more than freshness and smiles to fill it out; but her voice is so stirring and powerful that it overwhelms any deficiencies in her acting. By contrast, Linda Anne Kirwan is a gifted comedienne, handling the part of Pheobe with real comic flair and singing well, if less vigorously than her rival. Roberto Gaston makes an extraordinarily winning Fairfax, with his broad toothy grin, strong tenor and charming Gilbertian sense of the absurd...
...hours but at the same time altered the overtime policy so that the doctors who worked the longest hours received the lowest proportional pay. Negotiators for the junior doctors reluctantly accepted the offer, but the doctors themselves did not. "Mrs. Castle is a very inflexible negotiator," explained Dr. John Kirwan. "This shows we mean business...
...MARALEE KIRWAN BATTAGLIA...
Ohio Democrat Michael Kirwan, floor manager for the measure, declared that "every dollar in this bill represents an investment in America, and the benefits come back to us a hundredfold." Members who ordinarily bang the economy drum loudly, including Arizona Republican John Rhodes (whose state benefits from a Western power-development project that gets $21,600,000 this year) and Mississippi Democrat Jamie Whitten (who could claim $4,000,000 for his state), extolled Kirwan. "I have come to love him," said Whitten, "and to appreciate his great contributions to our nation...
...both sides of the aisle (though every project in his bill must satisfy a cost-benefits formula established by the Army Corps of Engineers). His hackles rise at any suggestion that his subcommittee ever approves a boondoggle: "Name one project that won't stand the acid," he challenges. Kirwan views his work as nation building. "Unfortunately, men are selfish, they are just interested in taking care of themselves," he says. "We had better wake up and do what is necessary to preserve, protect and develop America...