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...Farrar) and Luisa (Cathy Weary) demands an audience steeped in bad musicals to be funny. Out of historical context, the parody is too broad to be effective. Even the attempts at self-parody in the second act are unsubtle, and we keep wishing someone on stage will pull the plug, drain the syrup, and dazzle us with fast comebacks and some naked sarcasm...
Coast to coast, Carter and his troops try to plug in the President's plan...
...finally was working hard to achieve an outcome that would be successful from its perspective. Aides to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance could not suppress their laughter when their boss, appearing on TV's Meet the Press, stood a question on its head in order to insert a plug for Carter's energy program. Asked whether the President planned to visit Saudi Arabia during his nine-nation trip next month, Vance fairly pounced...
That gentlemanly routine changed not a single vote among the four Senators-a far cry from the arm-twisting, lapel-tugging, browbeating style of Lyndon Johnson. Noting that there were half a dozen Senators on the borderline, Consumer Lobbyist James Plug said, "Lyndon would have got at least one vote out of that bunch." Added a friend: "Hell, Lyndon would have got seven votes...
...last week, the opposing sides could agree on one thing: they had never seen anything like it. Said the American Gas Association's vice president for Government relations, Nick L. Laird: "It is one of the most intensive, all-out efforts I've ever witnessed." Added James Plug, director of Energy Action Committee, a consumers' lobbying group: "From my experience on the Hill, I don't remember anything like it. Maybe the exception is the antiwar movement...