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...assessment of the Soviet position. Bereft of areas in which to maneuver, the Soviets seem to be waiting for a new President, and hoping that their stalling on the arms talks will assure the election of a President who is less of a hard liner and easier to negotiate with. Equally complacent and seemingly bent on their own hard line, the Russians seem equally agreeable to prolonging our present brand of confrontational politics...
...sober presentation. This time around the star-crossed hopefuls are the ebullient Crocker and sweeter-than-sugar Hope Harcourt. True, Hope has another fiance but the undulating Reno (Heidi Dallin) makes an effort to rearrange the romantic supply and demand. All of this on a luxury ocean liner...
During the more than two hours of trauma and suffering, spiked by the occasional one-liner, that momentum fortunately grows. By Act III even the wet-washcloth quality of the pauses can't distract us, though the pacing remains subtly off--the end of each scene, including the last, comes as a surprise letdown instead of a definitive period. In between, by way of atonement, Cutler has admirably showcased a parade of comedy bits, from the infamous live lamb to Keith Rogal's slimy portrayal of Corporate Evil as the interloping lawyer. Still, no amount of carbonation can lighten this...
...START proposal that enjoys strong bipartisan support. Said Kenneth Duberstein, the presidential assistant who helped to put the package together: "It gives a signal to the Soviets that we are united." Not least of all, Reagan may have been able to dispel his image as an inflexible hard-liner and defuse the arms-control issue before the 1984 elections. Said one of his senior advisers: "This is what we should have been doing a year...
...should Ronald Reagan bow out in 1984, putting George Bush in the race for the presidency and leaving the vice presidency open, there are several G.O.P. women with running-mate potential. Not given serious consideration: Reagan's United Nations Ambassador, Jeane Kirkpatrick, a card-carrying Democrat whose hard-liner image is considered a turnofffor many women voters. The possible contenders...