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Quayle in part plays the Spiro Agnew role to Bush's Richard Nixon. But when Agnew went after the "nattering nabobs" and student protesters, he did so with a thuggish menace that Quayle lacks. Quayle smacks more of Midwestern Americana, of The Music Man's Professor Harold Hill, and Quayle's lines about unmarried mothers sounded like an echo: "We got trouble, right here in River City!" -- brazen hussies strutting around town in a family way: Make your blood boil? Well, I should...
...many others of its ilk. The score, as well, has an overabundance of the customary novelty songs ("Big D little a double l a s") and robust group numbers set in town squares. But the show achieves absolute emotional believability in the performance of the title role by Spiro Malas, a baritone behemoth who does not stint either the character's crudeness or his virtue. When he stands alone, singing of his needs, the patina of the period slips away and what remains is timeless...
...Administration turned loose Vice President Spiro Agnew to lead the charge of Middle Americans, the Silent Majority, and speak against the war protesters. The truculent young speechwriter putting the words in Agnew's mouth was Pat Buchanan. He had Agnew delivering a sort of W.C. Fields line about "an effete corps of impudent snobs." Now candidate Buchanan prepares the rhetoric for himself...
...political gambit, the method is tried and true. If you are an unpopular Vice President, refurbish your image by deriding an occupational group with an even lower approval rating than your own. Spiro Agnew popularized the ploy back in 1969 with his bitter denunciations of the news media. Following the same playbook, Vice President Dan Quayle -- a lawyer -- wangled an invitation to the American Bar Association convention in Atlanta and last week used the forum to mount a blistering attack on the legal profession...
Cuomo has sent representatives to call on Democratic state chair Chris Spiro, but has not himself visited New Hampshire recently, says Republican assistant state chair Kendall W. Lane...