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...that Great Britain seeks no advantage, territorial or otherwise, as the result of the war. On the other hand she will not be deprived of anything which rightly belongs to her after having given her best services to the good cause-at least not so long as your humble servant is entrusted with the conduct - -of her affairs...
...Great Communicator that some down in Florida feel when the latest serial killer gets fried in the old electric chair. 'Fry' is the operative word here, because Mondale did to Reagan in 90 minutes what Democrates, the press, and just about everyone who believes an elected public servant should be held accountable to his constituents, have failed to do: make him answer for himself...
...Huntington, Lazarus succeeds in entertaining the audience with the predictable but predictably amusing romantic romps of Baron Ferdinand Rommer and his devoted servant and apprentice playboy Gaston. For the Baron, love is a sport--its victories to be savored like any triumph, its game rules as important as in any game, and its old conquests good only for colorful but dispassionate reminiscing. His servant Gaston, his name seemingly synonymous with the command "service" and too often, invoked with the same sensitivity, knows love only from the Baron's recounts and, as he laments, "from an occasional peak through the keyhole...
Dousing herself with her lady's perfume, Maria--"Mimi" to her employers--assumes entirely the identity of her mistress as Gaston likewise plays the Baron. His own evening an unusual disappointment, the real Baron returns home, assumes the role of the servant, and establishes the framework for the ensuing comedy of affected manners...
...comic energy, You Never Know repeatedly reminds us just how much we do know. Imagine, if you will, a mere servant attempting to love a real person. You never know, it might work out, but only when the lady or gentleman in question is not really a lady or gentleman. At every opportunity, Porter shows Gaston and Maria unable to fathom the protocol of the Penthouse...