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...million for the office complex known as the Western White House and $550,000 for communications equipment. There were many other expenses listed, some of them only tenuously connected with "security." Among these items were $998.50 to remove a wrought-iron handrail deemed hazardous and $1,950 to prune trees and eliminate what the GSA called a "safety hazard caused by dead branches...
...Arthur Sullivan, but when the band gets back to Melrose's score, it's slow going again. Still, it's the kind of show kindhearted audiences try hard to like, and the cast is already learning how to spread its limited talent thin. David Lewis does reliably unflappable matron Prune, waddling through both acts with his dignity intact even when his virtue has been lost. As the traditionally breathy and breasty torch singer, Tom Wells (Helza) has enough slink and alto in him to fill his shining jump-suit with credibility, and Mark Miller's One-Eyed Jack starts...
Early on in the first act, this season's femme fatale, a witch named Helza Poppins, starts casting spells on a Greek shipping magnate (Pluto Cratopoulos), a Canadian Mountie (Major Assburn) and his troops, Assburn's liberated-bopper of a charge (Mary Wanna), a hefty schoolmarm (Hortense Prune) and her maidens, One-Eyed Jack and his faithful Indian Toronto, two refugees from the frontiers of the 1840s. While they're all stomping around in Helza's "enchanted forest," Strong's unflattering imitations of Shakespearean romance require that they fall in love with each other in various un-lovely combinations until...
Other potential solutions might try to prune the journalist's privilege into a less costly shape. For instance, journalists could be allowed to protect the sources of published information, but could still be compelled to reveal all other information in their possession (providing none of this information would reveal the source's identity). Thus reporters could withhold the names of sources, but not necessarily all notes and tapes. The burden would then be on the source to tell the reporter no more than he is willing to see brought to light--either in print or in court. It is doubtful...
What has Gina Lollobrigida been doing the past 2½ years? Traveling incognito all over Italy, she says, hiding from the paparazzi by wearing a wide variety of wigs and stuffing her cheeks with prune pits. "After a while I changed the pits for two buttons," she adds. "My mouth was getting sore." The purpose of all this was to take photographs for a picture book called Italia Mia. A perfectionist, she says she made 2,628 shots of Venice before she picked the three she wanted. All in all, the effort has worn out two cameras...