Word: shea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last year, when pollsters and pundits were scrambling frantically to predict the next President of the United States, Larry L. Shea says he already knew the answer...
...Shea, a Cambridge astrologer, had long before prepared an astrological chart for the United States. He based the chart on the positions of the stars on July 4, 1776, which he says indicated the nation was due for a dramatic change this year...
...soon as independent candidate H. Ross Perot with-drew from the race in July, Shea says, the outcome was perfectly clear...
Joanna Cassidy is perfect as Robinson's flack-from-the-inferno wife Linda. (It was her firm that cooked up the ingenious idea of sending its calaboose-bound client, Michael Milken, to Shea Stadium, chaperoning hundreds of poor black children, an incident that is still remembered as one of the most cynical, albeit futile, stunts in the sorry history of public relations.) Rita Wilson as Kravis' wife, the fashion designer Carolyne Roehm, is quite believable in the role of a woman whose single indulgence was a daily Oreo. Even the smaller parts work quite well, notably Leilani Ferrer as Johnson...
...Shea has a stronger voice and a more compelling stage presence. When he is not cowering in Byron's shadow, he delivers his monologues with feverish intensity. He is especially impressive in his final monologue, in which he recites a chaos of fragments from his poems, counting out the meter on his fingers...