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...Immigration and Refugee Policy, chaired by Republican Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming, and the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and International Law, headed by Democratic Representative Romano L. Mazzoli of Kentucky, opened joint hearings last week on reforming those laws. Says Simpson: "Our policies have made us the laughter of the world. Immigration is a game of numbers, and somewhere along the line we are going to have to deal with those numbers, or else we will be overwhelmed." Indeed, hardly anyone disagrees that the laws are obsolete, arbitrary and unenforceable, and that reforming them...
...expect mincing pastorals, conventional obituaries, complicated figure poems, sensitive soul-blubber, or well-behaved rhymes for church congregations. No, he would let every foul smell out of the bag; a chronicler, he would bring back the long war as a word-butchery, let loose gruesome laughter, and give the language license to be what it is: crude and softspoken, whole and stricken . . . but always drawn from the casks of life...
Reagan stirred loud laughter when he pulled a letter from his pocket and read the words of eight-year-old Peter Sweeney, a second-grader in Rockville Centre, N.Y., "I hope you get well quick or you might have to make a speech in your pajamas." Reagan let the laughter subside, then read Peter's postscript: "If you have to make a speech in your pajamas, I warned you." More laughter. The letter, part of a class project, had been picked out of mountains of mail by Chief Speechwriter Ken Khachigian, but no one on Reagan's staff...
Like the set and lighting design, the other elements of the production suffer more form misconception than from poor quality. Kean has her actors play their scenes broadly, often replacing tragedy with hokey melodrama, inspiring peals of unintentional laughter from the audience...
...better than that," Haig told the crowd. "When I'm in the Oval Office and the hot line rings, the President frowns, looks at me and says, 'It's for you.'" The crowd roared with laughter. Then, with exquisite timing, Haig added to even louder laughter: "Unless it's a crisis. Then the Vice President gets...