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Angel plays certifiably insane characters Whether he is a wormish clerk or an overly zealous medical student, a demented energy is always present He also exhibits many of the characteristic excesses of the show. His weasel-like voice in the first and last scenes is a little too much, as is his constant stooping But his energy consistently gets a laugh...
Some observers complained that the press had been too zealous in describing Fedders' travails, and protested that as long as an official is getting the job done, he should not be penalized for his private life. After trying to dissuade the Journal from printing the story, Fedders' lawyer, Nathan Lewin, dismissed the piece as "gratuitous" and "exaggerated." Yet a senior Administration official privately conceded that President Reagan could not keep on a known wife abuser, no matter how effectively he performed his job. Indeed, the White House had been informed of Fedders' behavior last year when Mrs. Fedders, after hearing...
...relations with Cuba, the U.S. was doing all it could to drive Castro to the wall by organizing a campaign against him, stirring up the Latin American countries and imposing an economic blockade on Cuba. "That's stupid," he exclaimed, "and it's a result of the howls of zealous anti-Communists in the U.S. who see red everywhere, though possibly something is only rose-colored or even white...
Once again the familiar tremors swept through Nicaragua. In the streets of Managua, the capital, dozens of Soviet-made T-55 tanks clattered into defensive positions. Antiaircraft crews manned their batteries, while zealous neighborhood defense committees scurried to dig air-raid trenches. Some 20,000 volunteer coffee pickers were reassigned to local militia units as the Sandinista government announced a "state of alert" affecting the country's 100,000-member military and security forces. For the third time in two years, the Sandinistas were loudly convinced-or so they said-that U.S. troops were about to invade their soil...
Lebowitz's catalog of boorishnesses is somewhat eclectic: zealous nonsmokers, people who go to work with colds, waiters who introduce themselves before handing out menus. Worst of all, says Lebowitz, who once drove a cab, are cab drivers. Says she: "Manners may be too polite a word. Many cab drivers just seem to be mildly insane. I would rather pay and just let the guy sit in the back while I drive...