Word: politicians
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...Please Don't Walk Around in the Nude, we are touched by Feydeau's comic madness from the outset. Ventroux (Phil Kirby), a French politician, is trying to explain to his wife, Clarisse (Nancy Cotton), that it is indecent for their son to see her wearing only her slip. She doesn't understand what is wrong with this or, for that matter, with her being seen in her nightgown by household servants, peeping-tom neighbors, and even Hochepaix, the mayor of a nearby town. The play's central conflict is caused when Clarisse's ingenuous and disputable logic meets...
Kirby's Ventroux is a convincingly stuffy and image-conscious politician. His overly refined accent and stiff posture mark him as a man set in his ways; he clearly has more difficulty dealing with his wife than he does with mere matters of government. His attempts to explain things to her are constantly foiled by her illogical reasoning. Unable to make her understand by any rational means. Ventroux rants and raves at her, finally throwing her out of the room in frustration...
Some of the people who understand the politician's need for subtle adjustment are now worried about the instant litany of nos produced by Ronald Reagan's White House on everything from nuclear-arms limitation to the budget. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev did not offer anything new in his proposed missile freeze in Europe, but the quick, harsh U.S. rejection spooked the world. While the clock feet toward serious economic trouble, Reagan still drags his feet on budget compromise. "The worst mistake the President made," one of his Cabinet officers said the other morning, "was not to accept...
...Malaprop had been a politician, she would have felt right at home in the state legislature of Michigan. For the past eight years, reporters in Lansing have been collecting the most memorable utterances of the legislators, and their quotes would have done Malaprop proud. This homegrown version of Bartlett's now covers most of one wall in the capitol press room. Some show an appealing honesty. "Before I give you the benefit of my remarks," intoned one lawmaker, "I'd like to know what we're talking about." Others mangle metaphors. "From...
Unusually modest for a politician, Pennsylvania Congressman Marc Lincoln Marks admits that he has had a "very undistinguished" three-term career in the House. A moderate Republican, he had loyally supported Reagan's economic program in what he called "my own best political interests." But as the white-haired lawmaker spent 19 days in the Bethesda National Naval Medical Center undergoing treatment for a chronic back problem, he brooded about his pro-Reagan votes. "I had a gut feeling that I was wrong," he recalls. "I should have paid attention to it. I was as guilty as anyone...