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...lasted but a short while Sunday morning. Early risers smiled at brunch, laughed while the ploughs and shovels, skis and boots, tires and sneakers shoved and pulled at the First Snow. Trees split and bushes collapsed in muted cracking and the initial wonder of the First Snow changed to laughter and smiles at the silent white joke...
That moment of warmth was a refreshing change for an Administration whose key players have been squabbling all too publicly. Indeed, that same afternoon President Reagan drew derisive laughter from the White House press corps when he insisted that the celebrated feud between Secretary of State Alexander Haig and National Security Adviser Richard Allen had been "exaggerated out of all reality" and that, to the contrary, "we're a very happy group." Yet, at the end of that same press conference, Reagan learned for the first time that his whiz-kid budget director had brought yet another flap upon...
...suggested otherwise: "Mr. President, in your exchange with the editors-I happen to have the transcript-I'd like to read what you said." That was not Reagan's only uncomfortable moment. A press corps professionally conditioned never to clap or boo gave way to spontaneous laughter when Reagan asserted: "There is no animus, personal animus, and there is no bickering or backstabbing going on. We're a very happy group...
...Weeks at Don Rickles' Summer Camp. In Gimme a Break (NBC, Thursdays at 9:30 p.m.), Lara Jill Miller, 14, proclaims, to laughter and applause from the studio audience: "I hate dresses. They show off your boobs." Lara, a midget Sophie Tucker in corduroys, seems destined to head her own Vegas lounge act. So surrender: send her to Rickles' camp and leave her there...
...such recalcitrant, semitragic, and seemingly implausible materials, Henley wrests combustible spasms of laughter. Perhaps she makes playgoers see their own catastrophes as others see them...