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Jimmy's quest for truth and justice takes him all the way to City Hall, where he is sent packing by tough-guy Mayor Tyler (Robert Culp). Fed up with the insensitivity of yet another elitist bureaucrat, Jimmy embarks on a one-man campaign to discredit Tyler and his administration. Trouble from Jim is the last thing that the Mayor and his tuxedo clad cronies need, already troubled by the departure of a top mayorial aide, accompanied by the city's bank accounts...
Tsongas' departure from the Senate should not have been a big deal ("MAN DECIDES FAMILY IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN CAREER! GIVES UP CAREER FOR WIFE, KIDS!"). Yet, the former Peace Corps volunteer in retirement at the ripe age of 43 has become a one-man spokesman against the social ravages of Yuppiedom...
Golub is 62 this year and, beyond question, the leading engagé in American painting. Yet it was not until a one-man show in 1982, his first in a New York City gallery in 20 years, that his fortunes changed. Up to then he was conventionally seen as a "Chicago artist," living in New York but tucked away on his own atoll of social irritability, far from the mainstream, best known for his activism in the Viet Nam years and for his earlier paintings of thick, eroded, archaeological figures in wounded repose or lumbering combat. But when...
Secretary of the Navy John F Lehman Jr. has been waging a one-man war against what he terms "the bureaucratization of naval language." Last week, in an effort to restore "our nautical lexicon," he ordered all Navy facilities to return to traditional usages by Jan. 1. No longer will passageways be halls or heads identified as toilets. Windows will once again be portholes, and ceilings will be overheads. Lehman, a naval aviator, also objects to recruiting pitches like "The Army wants to join you," feeling that such lines convey a "sense of apology" about the military. Says Lehman...
...said that if y ou stand in one place long enough, the world will pass you by. It's not true." "Have a girl, Chuck?" asks his "uncle" Ken, mom's live-in. "No thanks," he replies. "I'm full." Do all kids talk to their parents this way, mom asks, "I don't know. Most kids are too stoned to talk at all." And so on, Co-stars Peter Frenchettle, Jeffrey Tambor and Ann Wedgeworth, however able, can't match what starts as and should remain Cryer's one-man show...