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...songs are deft adaptations of rock rhythm. But the principal light-and-power supply of the show is a loose-jointed, lemur-eyed young lady named Leland Palmer, who as Viola shows that she can mug a laugh out of thin air, detonate a song and dance like a rag doll in a washing machine...
...Rag Bag. Last week's speech positions Miller, a moderate Republican, alongside such liberals as Economist John Kenneth Galbraith and Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King, both of whom advocate some sort of guaranteed annual income. In fact, what ideological difference there is on the guaranteed-income issue is largely a matter of emphasis, with conservative supporters apt to put more accent on incentives-and to link their proposals to reductions in what Economist Friedman decries as a "rag bag" of Democrat-administered welfare programs...
Gone are the days when small chil dren played contentedly with featureless rag dolls. Today's vogue is for realism, and toymakers now turn out dolls that can walk, talk, cry and even wet. When Frank Caplan, general manager of Creative Playthings, Inc., spotted a French doll called Petit Frere at Nürnberg's doll fair last March, he jumped at the opportunity to buy up distribution rights for the U.S. Renamed "Little Brother," the doll has a sweet angelic face, is, in fact, modeled after a Verrocchio Renaissance cherub in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence...
...this maudlin bundle of bathos is Sandy Dennis. She draws laughs from tears. An accident-prone waif who bruises an eye, bangs a toe and burns a finger, she runs to the audience to be comforted. She flutters and stutters, and sentences spill out of her mouth like rag dolls losing their stuffing. By now, though, this little-girl-lost act is beginning to cloy, and Sandy Dennis is in danger of losing her acting momentum in mannerisms...
...this, Douglas always adds a touch of spice. A deft, breezy interviewer, he pumps a starlet about her rumored romance or quizzes the Rolling Stones about rag-mop hairdos. On another occasion, he startled Guest Hubert Humphrey by casually commenting that "the President says you can make a speech as easily as you take a breath." The Vice President muttered, "Did the President say that?" After a long pause he added: "Then it's true...