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...jokes in four minutes has slowed, the style endures. Hope is still the All-American wisecracker. His only living peer among comedians, George Burns, 87, found himself a new guise: the worldly-wise old geezer. Hope does not change: he leads with his chin and the little golf swing he taught Johnny Carson and lives off his one-liners...
...warms to the attention. For on the course the visitor is reminded that this is Hope's game; all other players, ex-Presidents and Las Vegas headliners included, are simply along for the ride. Although he now shoots in the high 80s, Hope still has the picture-book swing he had when he was a four-handicap player. "You know what I'd really like to do this year?" he says, for a brief moment thoughtful. "I'd like to get my golf game back. I'd be really happy if I could break 80 again...
...days swing onward, galumph, galumph, students leap from their carrels out into the snow-less Yard ("I am not a prodigious leaper. I am a bird"). Lights burn late in House rooms ("Look at it this way, Silas, Louis Quinze is to the Pompadour as you are to ... "). Some seek recourse to the warm reassurance of love not dependent on academic achievement ("Sally, if I were stupid would you still love me the way I love you?"). Others seek recourse to the warm reassurance of physical exhilaration independent of academic achievement ("I'm not going to get out of shape...
Maybe yes, maybe no; Reagan was still not saying. Nonetheless, last week's trip highlighted the political challenge Reagan would face in 1984, if and when he declares himself: to shore up support among right-wing Republican supporters while reaching out to swing such groups as Hispanics, blue-collar workers and Roman Catholics...
Lear, at "four score and upward," requires no such exploits, but in this production he must ride a horse, swing heavy swords, be bucketed with 900 gal. of water, go shirtless, eviscerate and eat a rabbit. With the grip of mortality shortening every Olivier breath, each gesture can seem heroic, each line he utters a precious gift from the depleting stock of his time. But there are reasons beyond enlightened sentimentality to treasure this Lear. To support him Olivier has assembled an actors' aristocracy: Diana Rigg and Dorothy Tutin as Lear's treacherous daughters Regan and Goneril, Colin...