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Librettist Colby's campy, hit-or-miss humor works best in a scene describing the heroine's mother, a "chronic shiverer" who goes to her reward wearing enough garments to stock a branch of Marks & Spencer. Other beguiling wackinesses: a song about a man who makes eating vegetables seem a sexual experience, the vocal travails of a hiccuping, stuttering woman who has "bubbles in her bonnet," and the soprano heroine's sudden loss of her "high note," which she regains at the price of addiction-to helium sucked from balloons. In less good taste is a character...
Life was strict, punishment swift and reward restrained at home as at military school, though father and son were close. Ed occasionally used a wire coathanger "to get my attention," Ted recalls. He was assigned onerous chores to earn his pocket money, and by his late teens his father charged him rent during summer vacations. For Ted's graduation from his second military academy, the McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tenn., Ed Turner offered an enticing but booby-trapped present: a share of the cost of a Lightning-class sailboat. The rest was to come from Ted's savings...
...Democrats cannot agree on a new and more relevant philosophy by 1984, they will have missed a splendid opportunity. With a conservative Republican in the White House, the Democrats do not have to reward their traditional constituencies with new programs. "Reagan is absolutely ensuring us that we have all the blacks, environmentalists, women and labor union members," claims Jim Johnson, an aide to Mondale. "We don't have to be on the frontier issues any more." Thus the party is free to overhaul shopworn policies and get them in line with the demands and limits of the 1980s. "Voters...
...reward, the ruler promises her the hand of any noble in his court. Helena chooses Bertram. Aghast, the snobbish youth flees to the Florentine wars, leaving word that he will only acknowledge Helena as his wife when she secures the ancestral ring on his ringer and is pregnant with his child. To cut the Gordian knot of the plot, Helena achieves just that...
Incentives to cheat are being publicized almost daily: 1) the tax break our Congressmen gave themselves as a reward for having to live in Washington, 2) the President's "working" vacation in the Caribbean, 3) Nancy's costly staff. Is it any wonder that taxpayers feel no guilt when "making an error" in the amount of interest paid on a home mortgage...