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Clinton entered Bennett's offices more quietly, being driven to a basement parking lot that had an underground entrance to the building. During the lunch break, a takeout lunch arrived at Bennett's suite of offices--teriyaki salmon, spring onion cakes and vegetable spring rolls from Oodles Noodles restaurant. The Jones team had sandwiches. But in this ill-fated case, even the small players can get hit. The Oodles deliveryman was arrested and handcuffed after parking illegally and then arguing with a police officer...
...commonplace to say Gore wears a wooden mask in public and removes it in private to reveal a funny, knowing, ironic man of the world. But the quick wit Gore deploys in White House meetings or off-the-record encounters with reporters is just another layer of the onion, another protective device. He trusts almost no one, worries about leaks and guards himself to such an extent that some aides are not sure they have ever met the real Gore. "When he watches TV," a former adviser says, "you can almost see the voice in his head saying, 'Al Gore...
...like a wide-eyed child all over again. The second-act divertissments are ingeniously presented within the frame of a large-scale model of Drosselmeyer's toy theater from Act One, and each act has its own specific backdrop--pretty, if stereotypical (e.g., golden pagodas for the Chinese/tea dance, onion-domed places for the Russian), like the music and costumes--making each seem like a miniature ballet in itself...
Tipler isn't new to conducting at Harvard. A junior music concentrator, he was the music director of last year's puppet performance of The Magic Flute by the Onion Weavers and was one of the three conductors of the Toscanini Chamber Orchestra last year. At Friday's performance, he appeared a little nervous, but took control of the orchestra as soon as he mounted the podium. His conducting was clear and expressive, though at time slightly tense and skittish--probably due simply to nerves. Every once in a while he appeared to forget he was in front...
Among waiters carrying steamed dumplings, onion pizzas and chutneyed tenderloin buzzing through the crowd, many were expressing confidence in this year's crop of seniors...