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...Ambassador Kirkpatrick did a superb job, which has been characteristic of her performance at the United Nations from the outset." So said Secretary of State Alexander Haig last week about Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. That gracious praise was not exactly spontaneous: Haig was scrambling to patch up the damage done by leaks from his own aides, who had criticized Kirkpatrick's handling of a U.N. resolution condemning Israel for its bombing of Iraq's nuclear reactor. The sniping infuriated not only Kirkpatrick but the White House as well. It deeply embarrassed Haig and provided more...
...cramped stage in a seedy Newark bar, and all the men and women -onstage or off-merely sweaty-palmed buffoons following the dog act. With devastating acuity, the post-funny comics evoke these laugh-cadging mendicants of the entertainment industry. And because the post-funnies are superb deadpan actors, their exaggeration has the gritty kick of a Fred Wiseman documentary. One does not titter so much as cringe...
...long, charmed career, House Speaker Thomas Patrick (Tip) O'Neill, 68, has rarely been shoved around. A superb political technician, a man trusted even by House members who do not think his way, he drove the impeachment Congress as majority leader during Watergate. For the past eight of his 28 years in Congress, he has been the Democrat to deal with. But today many of the Speaker's good friends agree with Les Aspin that Tip is on the ropes. Despite a moving personal plea by O'Neill from the well of the House last week...
...defensive miscue in front of the Harvard goal with only five minutes left in the half gave James Madison its sole goal of the first stanza, Jenny Eisenberg scooped up an errant groundball and beat goalkeeper Charlotte Worsley, who had an otherwise superb game, turning away 12 of the Duchesses' 16 attempts...
...statement. Curator Waldman's laudable aim has been to present Gorky's career as a continuous unfolding rather than a plagiarizing apprenticeship followed by a sudden "second birth" into originality. One is grateful to see the painter whole, but one wearies of sentences like, "The drawings are superb, yet the paintings that followed ... are even more extraordinary." These canonizations of the Self-Martyred Master (an Armenian-American Van Gogh, in effect) have an anesthetic effect. One senses that Gorky's hesitations and failures were as essential to the man's identity as his real successes. Nobody...