Word: unreels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...judicial scandal began to unreel some 17 months ago when federal agents planted microphones in the offices of Roofers Union Local 30-30b. The purpose: to pick up possible crime leads, including potentially incriminating conversations between judges and union officers suspected of seeking a little too much brotherly love in the courtroom. Among the first taped was Judicial Candidate, later Judge, Mary Rose Fante Cunningham, who responded to an alleged gift from Union Business Manager Stephen J. Traitz Jr. with the words, now enshrined on tape, "I shouldn't take it, but . . . it's goin' to my family." Confronted...
...comedy. But certain smoggy patches of Lunch Hour do tend to induce that quest. Possibly the two funniest moments in Act I are Gilda Radner sparring with a spilled pot of coffee and juggling a scalding-hot spoon, and Sam Waterston watching the page proofs of his upcoming book unreel inexorably into a goldfish tank. All of which goes to prove that Director Mike Nichols is still a playwright's best friend...