Word: puckishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take some chicken broth." He stands at 6 ft. 2 in., with a gangly frame that is slightly stoop-shouldered. He walks like a sailor, which he once was, elbows extended and his legs spread as he lopes along. He has a small mouth that gives him a puckish look, even though, at 59, his hair is thinning and his chin has doubled. His round brown eyes and arched eyebrows tend to make him look perpetually surprised. But Helms knows exactly how to behave. "I'm a lousy politician," he says, in his best humble-pie manner...
...salt potshots at Tess and Sam's splintering love life. The evening's high spot consists of Tess and a humble housewife (Marilyn Cooper) agreeing that The Grass Is Always Greener - a lowlife, high-life duet. Cooper makes this sequence as tart as vinegar and twice as puckish...
Nofziger, who is ensconced in Richard Nixon's old Executive Office Building hideaway as Reagan's assistant for political affairs, has apparently carried the day. The puckish former press secretary has been given the power of "political clearance" over all sub-Cabinet jobs and was ceded nearly total control over some 1,500 lower-level political appointments. Says a presidential aide: "At the staff meetings every day, Nofziger says: "We've got to clean out the Democrats and get our own people taken care...
...ROMANTIC LEADS, usually serve as mere straight-men for the comic characters. But in Yeomen Phoebe, Fairfax, and Elsie all play three-dimensional, pivotal roles, especially in this production, because both comic principals are weak. Willis Emmons turns the razor-sharp, dominating role of Jack Point into a confusingly puckish, giggly supporting player. Some of the blame falls to director Paul R. O'Neill, who evidently has encouraged Emmons to read much of his dialogue in a jarring falsetto. In addition, Martha Weiner's Act One costume for Point bares too much resemblance to the costumes for the chorus...
...misery index that Jimmy Carter first referred to during the 1976 campaign, and that Ronald Reagan keeps citing in his attacks on the President, was concocted during the 1973-75 recession by the late economist Arthur Okun, who called it the discomfort index. He saw it as a puckish way to spotlight the nation's economic ills. The measure is simply the sum of the inflation and jobless rates. On Election Day of 1976 the index stood at 12.8%, with inflation at 5% and unemployment at 7.8%. The rate has climbed to 20% during Carter's White House...