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BOTTOM LINE: This radical reworking of The Nutcracker may be uneven, but it's always good for a laugh...
...1980s. "((Carey)) is basically an insecure guy who does not want anybody supervising what he's doing," says Lacey. "It's the same dance, but with different partners. Instead of McCarthy, it's Carey. But at least it's done to an Irish tune," he adds with a bitter laugh...
...QUESTION WAS TRICKY, AND BILL CLINTON REalized that he didn't have to answer it. Instead he gestured toward Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen to respond for him, adding with a laugh, "The great thing about having a Cabinet . . ." The sentence was incomplete, but the thought was clear: having chosen a team, the President-elect was no longer alone...
...wife of 17 years, counters, "He says he's not ambitious. I say he is.") After retiring from the civil service in 1989, he became warden of a privately run prison in Texas. When the call came from Louisiana asking him to return, Whitley's first reaction was to laugh. "I couldn't see coming back to a prison of the size and problems of Angola," he says. He set what he believed to be an unreasonably high salary -- $70,000 -- then found the joke was on him when his price...
...keeps hectoring Kaffee toward heroism. The antagonist is Colonel Nathan R. Jessep, Marine commander at Gitmo, not so much played as demonized by Jack Nicholson -- a wickedly smart psychopath, utterly self-confident and self-righteous. Nicholson sees the humor in this dark character but then freezes each potential laugh with a gaze that is hostile to anything not on his own agenda...