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Some installments, more ambitiously, try to fashion an appreciation of the subject by combining biographical material with excerpts from his or her work. The results are uneven. An upcoming 2 1/2-hour show on Eugene O'Neill brings on Actors Jason Robards and Geraldine Fitzgerald, among others, to perform scenes from O'Neill dramas. Interspersed are labored re-creations of people and events from the playwright's life, complete with sound effects (snoring in a flophouse) and performers impersonating such O'Neill intimates as his wives Agnes and Carlotta and Critic George Jean Nathan...
...Great Pumpkin ever makes it to the Eighth Congressional District, he'll surely visit Tom Gallagher, whose vintage idealism recently cost him a place among the candidates to succeed Tip O'Neill...
Reagan was even more persuasive in a personal lobbying effort, meeting with 30 Congressmen at the White House and telephoning 20 others, some from Air Force One as he sped west for a five-day vacation. Despite efforts by House Speaker Tip O'Neill, 51 Democrats deserted their party on the vote, providing a larger victory margin than many had expected. Said Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin, the House Armed Services Committee chairman who surprised colleagues by switching to the Administration's side: "The negotiating track needs some military support. We need both sticks and carrots...
...bigger weddings," he says. "People are bringing that money out of cubbyholes. A mother with holes in her sneakers will pull $1,000 out of her brassiere and say, 'Everything is the best for my daughter.' " Barbara Ferris, 30, whose May 24 Los Angeles wedding to Steven O'Neill was followed by a reception for "300 of our most intimate friends," explains, "When it boils down to a choice between money and friends, you go into debt...
...Joseph Kennedy, the first in the newest generation of America's royal family to run for public office, is the hope of the Eighth Congressional District to recapture its past glory. President John F. Kennedy once held the seat and for more than three decades Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, Jr., Speaker of the House, has represented the district. Joe Kennedy doesn't need any fancy commercials to create a persona; he was born with...