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Intellectual Fix. No one should be too much put off. The book's quip-filled tirades, like Shaw's prefaces, provide a splendid intellectual fix on the drama. Coffin temporarily leaves his wife and children, as well as Rinsler's movement, which proves as unscrupulous as any Establishment organ. He then tries to practice one-on-one enlightenment as straw boss to a crew of black migrant apple pickers on his ancestral New Hampshire estate. The results are hilarious but depressing...
That acid quip summed up the attitude of most of Congress's Democrats, and a great many Republicans, toward the appointment of Houston Attorney Leon Jaworski as Archibald Cox's successor. They were even more determined than before to create a special prosecutor independent of the Executive Branch. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield urged his colleagues to delay action on Nixon's nomination of Senator William B. Saxbe as Attorney General in order to take up the special prosecutor legislation first...
...editor of the semiofficial Cairo newspaper al Gumhouriya to president of the National Assembly. Nasser valued his loyalty but sometimes called him the Bikbashi Sah (Colonel Yes-Yes) because of his excessive docility. "If he would only vary the way in which he agreed," Nasser was known to quip, "I would feel a lot better." But in the year before his own death, Nasser made Sadat his Vice President...
Although Zero Mostel used to quip that he banked his money in his art books filed under Monet, art is no joke to the comic actor. A painter for 40 years, Zero had his first one-man show of more than 60 recent paintings and collages in Manhattan. "Let the paintings speak for themselves," he declared. And so they do, but in the accents of modern masters like Dubuffet, Klee and Miró. Zero's authentic voice can best be savored these days as he cavorts in a national touring company production of A Funny Thing Happened...
...Night at the Opera. Even la Sills, usually the best prepared of singers, became momentarily confused. At the full-dress rehearsal of Bolena, she lost her way in Anna's prayer scene and began to repeat herself. Ever the pro, Sills tossed off the mistake with a quip: "It is such a pretty aria, once is good but twice is better...