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...serve? Will he be responsive to the neglected economic issues of international affairs and sympathetic to the needs of the developing nations? Will he be able to distinguish between a worthy ally and a tyrannical client, between a genuine national interest and the demands of corporate investment? Does he possess a sense of his own fallibility and a healthy questioning of his country's place in the world? Is he committed to openness and honesty in the execution of his duties? In short, is he the best Jimmy Carter could have offered the country after over a decade of deceit...
...comedian is the tightrope artist of laughter. If his audience does not laugh, he falls, plunging into the terrifying void of collective silence. Yet the comedian's precarious venture does not end there. He may possess a commodious catalogue of jokes and tricky bits of business, but finally he has to put together some sort of theory as to why people laugh. This is a question that has puzzled minds of the caliber of Socrates' and Freud's, and Novelist George Meredith's and Philosopher Henri Bergson's, let alone your stand-up comic...
There is probably still another reason for America's official reluctance to deal with South Korean corruption. Those officials may well possess a sufficient sense of hypocrisy not to condemn foreign governments for the sort of actions that America has practiced for decades. Like South Korea, the United States has funneled money to foreign politicians and granted gifts (usually weapons instead of antiques) to those it wished to influence. And, unlike South Korea, America has manipulated massive sums of financial aid, directed programs of assassination of foreign officials and conducted secret wars abroad. South Korea has only brought home...
David Eddy (Scapino) is a case in point. Eddy is a fine actor and his pirate imitation in the second act marks the highlight of the show. But Eddy does not possess the polished energy needed to maintain two solid hours of high-flying farce. The part crys out for Jim Dale in a very special way. While certain parts have been stamped by the individuals who made them famous--Liza Minelli in Cabaret, Zero Mostel in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, to name two--rarely is a part actually created for a specific stage...
...impact on the CIA behemoth if he continues his reluctance to deal with specifics. The media is unlikely to take notice of him for unspecific "wrongdoing" and "lies." If, on the other hand, he comes completely clean and goes "on the record" with the information he claims to possess about CIA indiscretions, he very well might make the waves he so fervently desires...