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...levels." Mindful of the fairness issue, he wrote into his text the words, "progress helps everyone." But he read the line as "Congress helps everyone," one of an unusual number of verbal flubs. Reagan recovered nimbly from this one. He corrected himself, then said benignly, "Congress does too," to laughter and applause...
...roles, Coward is likely to be remembered best as the songwriter with a taste for the bittersweet. Like Porter, he shied from passionate expression, sometimes in the belief that love, like moonlight, was "cruelly deceptive"; sometimes because he saw himself as an English Pierrot, the clown whose laughter cannot quite disguise the catch in his throat. Of the nearly 300 songs in Coward's collection, the dead-on love ballads are the weakest: "Time and tide can never sever/ Those whom love has bound forever" serves to remind the reader that Coward grew up in the Edwardian heyday...
...lives are a mixture of both comedy and tragedy; perhaps neither can rise to gradiose levels in the common man, but the feelings are real and present in all of us. In Berto and Aggy we may be able to get a glimpse of our own moments of laughter and sorrow...
...overkill. While the characters lives seem realistic, the happy ending strains the limits of credibility and the illusion quickly falls apart. The playwright's challenge is to make an audience chuckle and choke up in the same evening, but Passione is not an appropriate vehicle for anything except laughter and some pointed satire...
...prices of some new issues shot skyward last summer, a few skeptics wondered whether the market had lost its senses. Convergent Technologies President Michels roared with laughter when he was reminded that the market had priced the company's total shares at upwards of $1.25 billion, more than, say, Revlon He joked, "The stock market is a study in exaggerated responses. It is like thinking about the price of California real estate...