Word: leached
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Capitol Hill, the talk of advisers touched off a furious debate. Even some Republicans were worried. Said Jim Leach of Iowa, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: "If we send advisers, and one or more are killed, we may well cause a nasty civil war to be come a Viet Nam in our own backyard." Said Maryland Democrat Clarence Long, chairman of a House subcommittee on foreign operations: "This Administration is making very much the same kind of mistakes that an Administration of my own party made 18 years ago." Long presided over hearings at which witnesses...
...production was first put on at Papp's lovely outdoor theater in Central Park last July. To get the freshness he wanted, Leach hired two pop idols for the leads, Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith. "We weren't out to do a rock version of Gilbert and Sullivan," he explains. "I wanted pop singers to make us rehear the lines." In fact, that seemingly odd casting was a master stroke, and both performers may be duly anointed as perfect in their parts. Ronstadt, 34, looks as innocent as a fawn and is able to hit high notes that...
...play has always been done in such a rigid, lifeless way that people don't realize how funny and vigorous the material is on the page," says Director Wilford Leach, one of the prime movers of Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival. "We wanted to do the play rather than people's idea of it. We decided to scrape off the encrustations of tradition but remain faithful to the script...
...perhaps more of a gamble. The whole production rests on the ability of the hero to combine two opposites, a sweet but dumb charm and an almost arrogant self-confidence. Smith showed both in audition. "He came in and sang one note-B-flat-over and over," recalls Leach, "and right off he informed us that he could pull it off. He even pulled Errol Flynn's picture out of his wallet...
Tucking Tail and Running Claude ("Buddy") Leach's political future looked bleak indeed after he narrowly won his congressional seat in Louisiana's Fourth District two years ago. He was subsequently indicted for buying votes in both the primary and general elections. A total of 35 people have been convicted in the scandal, including the mayor of Leach's home town of Leesville, but Leach was acquitted...