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...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT. Sound a bellow with a whisper, match a maharajah with a mouse, mix wit with whimsy, and you have the combination for an evening of charming entertainment by Flanders and Swann...
Coolest in Dallas. In his general characterization of Johnson, Manchester depicts him immediately after the shooting as "incapable of coping with the fact of his succession," as "far readier to take orders than to issue them," as being in a "muddle" and talking in a "feeble whisper" to one Texas associate. According to Death, it was only later, on the plane, that Johnson recovered. Roberts' subjective appraisal: Johnson "was the coolest man in Dallas, or aboard Air Force One." Even on inconsequential details, Roberts finds fault with Death. He says that the book used for Johnson's swearing...
...waves subside; you whisper of commotion...
...election will be his first test at the polls. He is well aware that he has a fight on his hands. In a party caucus after he dissolved the lower house, Sato warned members three times to lay off any hanky-panky and to avoid even a whisper of scandal during their campaigns. "The recent mor als problem," Sato admitted to the nation in a public statement, "has greatly impaired the people's trust in politics and political parties. We are determined to investigate what needs to be investigated, rectify the wrongs, and establish a fair and clean government...
...Right You Are is fraught with secrets too terrible to tell, The School for Scandal is full of secrets too scandalous not to whisper. The APA company rubs a trifle too much humanizing balm and not enough stingingly satiric acid into the pores of the play, and the production is no 18th century match for the high-styled revival presented on Broadway three seasons ago by John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson. Yet it does have one incomparable delight: Rosemary Harris as Lady Teazle, the country kitten who comes to London town, takes the burr out of her purr and meows...