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...humor of the script. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert's wit is very much couched in wordplay and innuendo, and Ingman creates--in effeminate prancing, mock-stealthy stalking and slapstick combat--a physical counterpart to the clever turns of phrases. While such physical comedy can compromise itself with too much zeal or too little precision, this seldom happens. The actors seem to understand the appropriate bounds for their movements and the script is never upstaged...
Thompson has said he is not interested in going over the Whitewater ground laboriously covered by the past two Congresses. But the Democratic Party's dubious fund-raising practices are fertile territory for someone whose zeal for campaign-finance reform has not endeared him to his colleagues. Pressure for a full-blown congressional investigation intensified last week when Attorney General Janet Reno rejected requests for an independent counsel. And Thompson has suggested that there still may be questions worth raising about how the White House handled the firing of its travel office or how it gathered FBI files on prominent...
Keeping his zeal in check would be a big change. Burton, a former insurance salesman who is by turns gregarious and confrontational, has not spared even Socks the cat--"Why are the taxpayers being made to pay for your feline's fan club?"--in raising ethical questions about the Administration. He was one of the first in Congress to suggest that the President might have broken the law and might have lied in his handling of the Whitewater affair. Burton became obsessed with the idea of a cover-up involving Foster, the White House aide and Clinton friend whose death...
...court-martialed a pair of mechanics who had made what appeared to be a good repair on a piece of equipment that the Air Force admitted was poorly designed. Instead of acknowledging that it had been warned about the problem, the Air Force pursued the senior mechanic with such zeal that he came to believe suicide was his only escape...
...three events a week. The campaign model, duplicated again and again, was a low-cost proposal to strengthen communities accompanied by a bully-pulpit road show featuring Good Neighbor Bill. Everything was coming up values. Morris began cherry-picking good new ideas throughout the Executive Branch, using his unmatched zeal to push them to fruition. The West Wing became a floating policy meeting that gave way to a scheduling meeting that segued into a message-development meeting. Clinton loved the values assembly line. "Where were you boys in 1994?" he said to one of the consultants in April. "Could have...