Word: simpleton
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the publication of Morris' biography, the media have once again jumped at the chance to rekindle their Reagan bashing. Reagan was not a simpleton; he just had a simple message. He wanted to free Americans from excessive government, and he wanted to win the cold war. Reagan's message may not have been complex enough for the intellectuals, but at least he didn't put his finger to the wind and take a poll before making decisions. I will always respect him for being a man of convictions. BILL CLINGER Harpster, Ohio...
...also sure to touch off still more controversy among fractious Einstein historians. In a new book titled Einstein's Daughter: The Search for Lieserl (Riverhead Books; $25.95), Michele Zackheim, 58, a Greenwich Village painter turned writer, argues that the toddler was severely retarded and probably had Down syndrome. A simpleton child, in the language of the time, she would have been considered uneducable. Zackheim contends that Mileva, unable to place the little girl for adoption or send her to an orphanage, left her with her parents at their home in Serbia's rural Vojvodina region on the fertile Danube plain...
...President"--incidentally, a longtime favorite of the Harvard Band. As John P. Wintergreen, Jordan Cooper '99 owned the stage with his fantastic voice and commendable acting ability, while Todd Plants '01, who looks eerily like a grown-up Ralphie from "A Christmas Story," won our sympathy as the simpleton with reservations about being Veep ("what if my mother found out?"). Joe Nuccio '00 commanded a range of priceless facial expressions as Fulton, the head party man. Meara McIntyre was sweet and never shrill as Mary Turner, the gal who made "Corn muffins or justice?" into a more-than-rhetorical question...
...romantic character as a wise innocent, an idealized Everyman. His pursuit of his principessa, who is engaged to a local Fascist leader (and is sweetly played by Benigni's wife Nicoletta Braschi), and his casually farcical assaults on decorum and authority are, if you have a taste for simpleton comedy, inoffensive...
Travolta, who turned 44 last month, shows few signs of age save a bulkier frame than his lean disco-daddy build in the '70s. He's choosing a wider range of roles now, from a simpleton security guard in Mad City to a hotshot yuppie lawyer in the upcoming drama A Civil Action. After a spring break, he may appear with wife Kelly Preston in a military thriller, The General's Daughter. And there's a good chance he'll play Frank Sinatra in a Dean Martin biopic to be directed by Martin Scorsese...