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Tubby looked mistily at the fireplace. The day after Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur, Tubby had come into the Oval Office bearing a stack of telegrams from outraged voters. "See that fireplace," Truman snorted. "Throw 'em in there." Tubby smiled approvingly at the memory of having done...
...your pardon. Pay, not Pee. Unintentional error, of course." Similarly, Clarisse doesn't understand why Ventroux is upset that Hochepaix called him a "pretty pair of sights." Ventroux informs her that the term was "party parasite." Jokes like these may have worked better in French; they do not stack up to the rest of the dialogue...
...there fail to be fat by the ton? The fiscal 1983 Defense Department requests are up 13.2%, after inflation, from the current year, and the five-year forecast calls for spending a total of $1.6 trillion, an amount that Ronald Reagan might try to make comprehensible by describing a stack of dollar bills 107,000 miles high. Reflecting on these towering sums, New York Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan flatly predicts: "The proposed defense increases aren't going to take place...
...Zucker does, after all, occasionally have to go offstage to take a breather. Why does that silly papier-mache horsehead keep bounding up to the audience? Why is one fellow sitting on a straw-stack on the edge of the stage, strumming an unidentifiable instrument and looking so mellow that spectators two rows back started betting on when he would fall asleep? Why does Dr. Paradisio (Tamara Jenkins) keep screaming at both real and imaginary audiences about the healing powers of ga-a-a-a-arglin' oil? Why on earth does one actress spend a full half-hour...
...shock of red hair and that stern face in the empty house," remembers Stratas. "She was Jenny and I thought that I was hopeless." Only later, as Lenya was dying, did Stratas learn that her performance had deeply affected her colleague-so much so that Lenya gave her a stack of Weill songs that she had been keeping in a safe for years, waiting for the right interpreter to come along. Those songs became the basis of a treasurable record, The Unknown Kurt Weill, which has been nominated this year for two Grammy awards. Says Stratas: "Somewhere we were both...