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...mother Grace (Sarah Miles) is no saint, either. She married her lover's best friend because he could provide her stability. And--surprise, surprise--she's regretted the marriage ever since. Enter stupid subplot number one: with father away at war and Mac the lover still in town, and with Mac's wife Molly about to leave him, he tries to rekindle old flames with mixed results...
...Since 1980 the actors have been crisscrossing the country in a rickety red-and-white bus, playing in penitentiaries and juvenile-detention centers, holding theatrical workshops and performing their largely improvised plays about prison life. One aim is to force prisoners to admit to themselves that criminal behavior is stupid and ugly. "Our work is no more than 20th century versions of medieval folk tales," says the British-born Bergman, a voluble, witty man who smokes incessantly and is forever running his hand through his tangled, shoulder- length hair...
...seek any further confrontation with Iran," he said, "but we will be fully prepared to meet any escalation of military actions by Iran with stronger countermeasures." President Reagan was somewhat blunter. "We're not going to have a war with Iran," he said. "They're not that stupid...
...learned in Vietnam, proportional response brings failure. Destroying oil platforms will not convince Iran to end its war with Iraq, to cease its attacks on shipping, or to stop its support of international terrorism. A radical, revolutionary regime that is indeed "stupid enough" to risk war with the United States, Iran only will respond by doing what it does best--escalation. And our undefined commitment in the Gulf will give us only one choice. That will be to follow, thereby passing on the initiative to Teheran...
...Congress is the one that's in command" of the budget process. (It's also in command of the tax-writing process, but no matter. This is a president who thinks that the Founders having given Congress a role in the budge-writing process is "kind of a stupid setup.") Much like he did before last November's election, he played his hackneyed tune about how 50 years of Democratic "tax, tax, spend, spend" policies are the cause of all our problems. Franklin Roosevelt and Tip O'Neill were responsible for the near-crash...