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...group's highly regarded artistic director, Jon Jory, is an adventurous risk-taker, but this time he may simply have put together too speculative a production portfolio. His gamble on a front-porch theme of exploring U.S. rural small-town roots, ranging in time from 1915 to 1951, produces the unintended illusion of leafing through old Saturday Evening Post covers by Norman Rockwell...
While the President fiddled, a number of his appointees diddled, in a truly baroque spree of systematic stealing. Attorney General Harry Daugherty was perhaps the most clever and rapacious. Daugherty shared a Washington house with one Jess Smith, a fellow Ohioan and a proven fixer and bribe taker. Smith granted favors and made promises that only the Attorney General could deliver, kept up to half a million dollars buried in a friend's backyard and walked around wearing a money belt filled with 75 $1,000 bills. When the jig was nearly up, Smith committed suicide. To thwart...
...said yes.' " Spencer's reply: "I'm delighted for you both." Though later he joked: "I wonder what he would have said if I'd turned him down." The father of the bride could not contain his pride: "She is a giver, not a taker, and that is very rare these days. I think Charles is very lucky to have...
...opposition's book on Reagan (by now a public document) is that he is always underestimated. That too is a mark of the natural man ?the fox taken for a fool who winds up taking the taker. Yet there is no Volpone slyness in Reagan. If he has been underestimated, it may be that he gives every sign of underestimating himself?not as a tactic, but honestly. So wholly without self-puffery is he that he places the burden of judging him entirely on others, and since he is wholly without self-puffery, the judgment is almost always favorable...
Reagan's landslide challenges the pulse-taker profession...