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...with Nancy Reagan. The two are constantly on the phone, going over events of the day, measuring future dangers, sizing up the performance of Administration players, even the President himself. Reagan sometimes needles Deaver about the amount of time the two spend talking, referring to Nancy as "your phone pal." There is little action and intrigue around the White House that the pair does not know about. Says one longtime friend: "They're so alike in many ways, both suspicious by nature and judgmental." Sometimes they are appalled at how trusting Reagan can be of other people...
...consensus of rumor, backstage gossip and onstage evidence, this is Michael's show all the way. The opening dispels any doubts on that point. In a blitzkrieg of light, sound, lasers and smoke, shambling creatures that resemble Big Bird's pal Mr. Snuffle-Upagus re-enact a short, skewered version of The Sword in the Stone. The young man who yanks the steel out of the rock turns out, of course, to be our Michael, and the lasers reflecting off the blade into the far reaches of the stadium make him look for a moment like a dashboard...
...understanding. They write letters and wait. Mostly they are disappointed. The replies are boilerplate committee jargon. Roosevelt did a little better with Stalin because they were allied in a great war. But Harry Truman, who sort of liked "old Joe" after Potsdam and tried to make him a pen pal, soon found there was not enough of a relationship to discourage Stalin from trying to consolidate his grip on Eastern Europe and starve out West Berlin...
...share a woman (Sigourney Weaver, whose striking physical presence provides a marvelous ironic contrast to her dithering sensibility). Phil steals his own child, beats up a bubble dancer (Judith Ivey) and finally kills himself. At the end, Eddie is frantically leafing through the dictionary, hoping to find in his pal's suicide note an anagram that will reveal the meaning in an apparently meaningless...
...racking, like he said it would be. Going into a new society, I mean," she explains. "For most of basic, I won't see children or watch TV or hear music or even see animals." Cooper, however, does not confess any apprehension. He calls Yasenak "Yasenak," like a pal, and believes he knows what he's getting into. "He showed me videos of the different Army occupations I could take." A combat specialty does not appeal? "You can't really get a job, later in life, firing mortars...