Word: waggish
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...will not, of course -- and foreign policy driven in fits and starts by intrusive messages of turmoil from abroad only ensures repeated buffetings. In one of his waggish moments, Henry Kissinger once commented, "There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full." Clinton, along with society in America and the West at large, seems to take this attitude in earnest. Last May, when Bosnian Serbs refused to follow his peace script, Clinton lamented with almost pathetic candor, "I felt really badly because I don't want to have to spend any more time on that than...
...display more "spirit," more "energy" in preaching reform. The President, he said, should evoke the styles of F.D.R. and J.F.K. After delivering that message during a Thursday luncheon with senior Clinton advisers, Kerrey went to an afternoon movie, What's Love Got to Do with It. That prompted one waggish official to suggest that Tina Turner be enlisted to lobby the Senator...
Meanwhile, what concerns old hands at the New Yorker is whether another generation will recognize it. "In the past five years," maintains a key editor, "we have simply witnessed the twitching of the corpse. Now the body is really dead." The staff's waggish valedictory for the magazine as they have known it -- "Si-yonara" -- shows a clear awareness of who is really shaping the changes that lie ahead. As one of them says, "What we've learned is that when you're as rich and powerful as Si Newhouse, you can do exactly what you want...
...tart ! comedy of contrasts between what we say and what we tell ourselves we believe. The tragedy is as hoary as a D.W. Griffith silent romance; the comedy is as up to date as The Real Thing. Appropriately, Keith Hack's production finds its tone in waggish irony, as established by Charlie, the eternal old maid. Bitching genteelly about his rivals, flouncing through life with wet rancor, Charlie is the play's most modern character. And Petherbridge's deftly broad performance connects so directly with a 1985 audience that the other men's declarations of love sound like letters from...
...hints that Klinger will get married and Hawkeye will come close to a nervous breakdown. Beyond that, speculation turns to fancy. Will Radar or Frank or Trapper or even a resurrected Henry Blake return, in person or in flashback? Will everyone survive the armistice? Or will, as one waggish M*A*S*H watcher suggests, the 4077 be told that they have been literally in Korea for these eleven years, that it is now 1963 and time to re-up for Viet...