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...began campaigning for the November election. Holtzman was the initial favorite, chiefly because the state is mostly Democratic, and she has strong support among Jews, the elderly and women. D'Amato and Javits immediately began scrambling for the moderate vote. Scoffed D'Amato of Javits and Holtzman: "Tweedledum and Tweedledee." Because of Holtzman's votes against defense budgets, D'Amato complained, the U.S. military would "have trouble buying a popgun." But with endorsements, from the state's tiny Conservative and Right-to-Life parties, D'Amato may have trouble attracting enough moderates...
...conservative member of the board of supervisors. One reason Feinstein failed to win was the success of minor candidates: Punk-Rock Singer Jello Biafra astonished even himself by taking 3% of the vote. More significant, David Scott, an openly homosexual real estate agent who called Feinstein and Kopp "Tweedledum and Tweedledee," won 10%. How his followers vote will be decisive in the runoff, and both candidates will be courting them in the next few weeks. They must do so while also appealing to an apparent conservative mood among other voters. San Franciscans defeated proposals to install strict rent controls, disband...
...have paid off. G.O.P. membership is up about 1,500 in the first five months of 1979, and party contributions are expected to increase $100,000 over previously projected figures for the year. "Dreyfus has brought in a large number of independents who were dissatisfied with the old tweedledum and tweedledee routine," says Milwaukee Sociologist Wayne Youngquist...
Another problem is that some of the clever word plays in the book become thudding puns in Looking Glass because they are taken out of their original context. The funniest parts of the show are those in which the adaptor's hand is least conspicuous, as in the Tweedledum-Tweedledee episode...
...supporting case was enthusiastic and enjoyable, especially Heitzi Epstein and Judy Milstein as Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Together they managed to salvage the first act from total oblivion. Andy Sellon was a riot as the pedantic Humpty-Dumpty. Simon Goldhill and Caryl Yanow as the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle were also amusing. Julie Zickefoose and Clare McGorrigan as the White and Red Queens supplied some spirited moments and the chorus was delightful, especially in the Lobster Quadrille dance. Cindy Cardon as the vamping, tap-dancing mutton charmed even those who had given up hope after two and a half hours...