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...think that we got a little complacent," Craigen said. "We're a little inexperienced this year, not used to getting up and getting down. We're just trying to straighten out the hills and the valleys...
...which raises the other great wonder about Dole: How has someone who has managed to survive 36 years in Washington come this far in presidential politics without a tight circle of advisers around him with the stature to tell him what to do, when to straighten up, when to stick to the script no matter what? Maintaining a strict posture on his message and delicately balancing competing agendas are the essential first and second positions of presidential ballet. And it is vital to have a merciless coach or two. Ronald Reagan had them. So did George Bush...
Gangly Gerald Conlon is a young Northern Irishman going through all the normal foibles of adolescence--stealing scrap metal, starting riots, having his kneecaps threatened by the IRA--until his father ships him to London to 'straighten out'. When a series of IRA bombs terrorizes the city, Gerry is one of four Irishmen wrongly accused, tortured, railroaded, and imprisoned by the nasty Brits. Gerry's da is imprisoned along with Gerry, and later dies in jail, all of which makes for excellent drama and is a great showcase for Lewis' mesmerizing intensity...
...perspective, all that matters right now are the baffling electronic registers. The training center itself is a full-scale mock-up of a fast-food restaurant, complete with menu board, soft-drink dispenser and enthusiastic instructor Bernadean Rouse, who plays a hard-driving shift manager. As she attempts to straighten out Jupiter, she shouts a general alert to the class: "If you don't hit the keys really hard, the numbers don't come up." Students help one another find the maddeningly elusive cash-register keys--there are 119 of them--while reminding their fellows to "Smile," "Make eye contact...
Albee calls this woman "A," and in the first act we see her, a rich and somewhat senile nonagenarian, ensconced in her room with its elegant furnishings and silver tea service. She is joined by B, her hired companion, and C, the young woman lawyer who is trying to straighten out the elderly woman's finances. In the second act, B and C become earlier incarnations of A, and the three--now all one woman, at different stages of her life--open up to each other, and to the audience. It is a brilliant coup de theatre, which first presents...