Word: pooh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Which is putting it mildly. Consider the role of Congress, the institution controlled by Democrats that is supposed to be an ally of a Democratic President, a confluence Clinton promised would end government gridlock. In speaking with Congress's Pooh-Bahs, the President-elect's people have heard the following advice, almost uniformly: Clinton must get the deficit down, and Congress is ready to help. O.K. so far. But don't you dare try raising taxes beyond the new levies on the rich that Clinton spoke about during the campaign. Oh? Well, then, which spending programs would Congress support cutting...
...female lead of Yum-Yum, Rachel Storch's vocals are masterful. Her voice is clear and sweet and among the strongest in the show. She does not deliver her lines with the hilarity of, for example, Sneeringer as Pooh-Bah, who haughtily claims a direct line of descent from a "protoplasmal primordial atomic globule...
...ultimately it is the men--Ko-Ko, Nanki-Poo (Braden C. Linard) and a wonderfully rotund Pooh-Bah (Skip Sneeringer)--who make The Mikado worthwhile...
...courtesy calls on the Washington establishment, a kind of reverse welcome wagon that Carter self-righteously shunned. It will go more quickly this time around, since so many of the Democratic Pooh-Bahs are power lunching in the Great Marble Halls beyond or are under indictment. And once you pay your respects, you don't have to hire them...
...STYLE WITH ELSA KLENSCH, a brisk survey of how rich people live, dress and accessorize. The show offers runway reports of next season's couture (for the women) with more cleavage than anywhere this side of pay cable (for men), plus grooming tips and a visit to some fashion pooh-bah's aerie. Hovering above the glitz, as stately and nurturing as the Queen Mum, is the Australian-born Klensch. For Elsa, shoddy clothes and naughty tattle simply n'existent pas. "Karl Lagerfeld could kill his mother," she told HG, "and I'd just ask him about the design...