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...country to hear federal employees bewail the silly rules they work % under and the money they fritter away. Gore has recruited a full-time staff of 200 mostly young aides (supplemented by about 800 part-timers from inside and outside government), who have torn into their job with remarkable zest. The atmosphere last week in their workshop, a second-story suite above a McDonald's restaurant, was reminiscent of a campaign headquarters days before election: young aides sat on the floor surrounded by piles of paper while phones rang constantly...
...audience knows it is in for an offbeat experience as soon as the first character appears, sporting an elephant's head. This is Ganesha, the Hindu god who embodies childish playfulness, zest for life and prankish humor. During the course of almost three hours, he appears in countless guises across a tourist's landscape of India, as a Japanese husband and later his wife, as a street peddler, a beggar and a leper, not to mention moments of high-spirited invisibility when he is simply a god. He attaches himself to two suburban American matrons, old enough to be grandmothers...
...David H. Bor, acting chief of medicine at the hospital and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, said the award recognized the hospital's "zest for public service...
...movie squirms to life when the subsidiary folk appear: Rennie (David Strathairn), the engaging "swamp Cajun" with the motor boat; Chantelle's beau Sugar (Vondie Curtis-Hall), whose pleasure in women is a contagious delight; Kim (Sheila Kelley) and Nina (Nancy Mette), two soap-opera actresses who give zest and drama to any line reading; May-Alice's gay, weary old friend Reeves (Leo Burmester), who chats about "homoerotic delftware" that bears the likenesses of "little Dutch boys in compromising positions." Reeves sells homes now. "Real estate," he muses. "What our dreams come...
...argues his ideas with zest and vigor -- in contrast to the cautious, softspoken approach of Perez de Cuellar. Critics contend that Boutros-Ghali's sharp mind crosses the line into impatience and rudeness toward diplomats, who generally do not like to act hastily...