Word: superhumans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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National Secretaries' Week should be renamed Fawn Hall Week. This young woman has given the world its most riveting demonstration ever of the near superhuman demands of being a professional secretary. Skewered by the accusatory glare of global publicity like a pinned butterfly, she has faced her congressional inquisitors with poise and outlined her activities and opinions with candor, dignity and grace under the pressure of probing examination and political pettifogging. She offers no excuses for her absolute loyalty to her boss or for having provided her unquestioning support in pursuit of his operational goals. Fawn Hall has stolen...
...STORIES of the movie star and of W218 are spun out of fantasy, full of superhuman characters and improbable events; by contrast, Ana is portrayed through her diary entries and conversations as a believable and realistic character, with human proportions and human problems--illness, exile, old lovers. The novel shuttles back and forth between these separate narratives, creating a web of associations and hazy relationships between the three women. But little is revealed to the reader for certain; of this complex interplay we know only that W218 is a descendent of the long-dead movie star, whom she sees...
...role elucidating Eleanor's fragile inner workings, and the sheer force of her performance sets her apart from the other players. Gasser's performance as Eleanor and Kim Shaw's portrayal of Agnes, the former wife of the dead Albert, are also very good. But not even superhuman acting could save Nichols' gimmicky and cliched script...
Instead of admitting to his little outburst of normality, Reagan and his staff sought to maintain his superhuman status. Just as he tries to fool the country with fountain-of-youth hair color and make-up, the 75-year-old chief set out to snow the public by denying he had ever uttered the phrase...
...Sweetser performed the near-superhuman task by surging past the Yale swimmer in the race's final moments to give Harvard a victory in the event and a 75-65 triumph overall against the high-flying Eli, sending a highly-partisan capacity crowd of 2000 home dissapointed...