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...leading up to the Bay of Pigs fiasco in April 1961. Some 60 pages of documentation follow, recording in minute detail, sometimes hour by hour, the preparations for this doomed venture. The trouble is, all this information has been in the public record for several decades. The only new twist that Harlot's Ghost brings to this old story is Harry's anxiety that his CIA colleagues will learn he is keeping an unauthorized record of the proceedings. And this road leads to unintentional comedy: "I am back in the loo, writing away...
...like the painter Aman-Jean, strangers glimpsed in the street, women with the mannered gravity of Greek kouroi -- have an immense dignity and distance. Watch how a mere lightening of tone on a woman's face in profile, in the studies for La Grande Jatte, records the head's twist toward the light; or how wittily the curve of a little girl's highlighted slouch hat reflects that of her back. Such style, one realizes, is in essence moral. Seurat, one of the wittiest and most logical artists who ever lived, was simply incapable of triviality...
...Lemme tell you the twist. We call the show Princesses. One of the women is a Jewish-American princess. The second is a wholesome, Middle American sweetheart -- sort of a Wasp princess...
...contestants are nice to look at -- knockouts, a couple of them. They are also played by men. This twist gives the burlesque a wierd glow and cues some wonderfully precise writing and acting. Pageant, conceived and directed by Robert Longbottom, never degenerates into drag queens unchained. Like Miss Industrial Northeast (Joe Joyce), who roller-skates while playing the Sabre Dance on her accordion, the show is perfectly poised on the precipice of farce. And like Miss West Coast (John Salvatore), who performs an interpretive dance called "The Seven Ages of Me," Pageant is all about ego and the denial...
...reached for my wallet, thinking "Boy, this is a lot of money"; Rich Guy No. 1 pulled a $100 bill from his wallet; Rich Guy No. 2 asked me to reach behind and grab his briefcase -- his money was in there. But as I was beginning to twist around toward the luggage, Rich Guy No. 1 raised his hand. "Please," he said, handing the pilot a second...