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...didn't know where? That's a pretty lame excuse, but they're at Briggs Athletic Center--the same place the men play...
Sure, Witch and Famous suffers from Puddingitis--incurable length--and lacks any truly show shopping numbers. But since the numbers are uniformly quite good, the show never seriously falters. Alexis Position is the one real standout as the snippity angel who makes her entrance in enough gold lame to redo the State House dome, and who secretly longs to have. "The Devil in Me." Strong performances as well come from Anita Mann and Lou Suffer, proving once again that evil is easier to imitate than is virtue...
Alice Walker's fourth book of poetry may surprise readers of The Color Purple, but it is hardly an anticlimactic follow-up to the Pulitzer Prizewinning novel. The collection of poem's begins with an almost apologetic quote from Lame Deer, a Sioux medicine man: "For bringing us the horse we could almost forgive you for bringing us whiskey. Horses make a landscape look more beautiful." The reader who expects poems about horses and flowers, however, will be disappointed. Walker's poems are sharp, often political criticisms aimed at contemporary society...
...ability to go to the country," warns Vice President George Bush. Reagan is not an insider like Lyndon Johnson, who would deal and wheedle, reward and punish. Reagan's way of disciplining Congressmen is simpler: he just goes on TV and turns their constituents against them. Indeed, the term lame duck loses much of its meaning with a President who knows how to use television as a bully pulpit...
Above all, under the 22nd Amendment Reagan's second term must be his last. To succeed as a lame duck, he will have to revise some familiar assumptions about presidential power and its exercise. But then, he has spent four years doing ex- actly that...