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...Koch would argue that he acts toward everybody equally, but as a former aide says, "Ed treats everyone the same? badly." Nor does it help matters when Koch works himself into a state and starts hurling words at his critics like "wacko" and "ideologue...
Lanford Wilson possesses something that any pol might envy. He controls the wacko constituency-weirdos, crazies and freaks. Fifth of July is a redo of his The Hot l Baltimore, transported to a creaky ancestral house in Lebanon, Mo. Aunt Sally (Mary Carver), wooed and won in Wilson's romantic drama, Talley's Folly, has come back 30-odd years later to scatter her late husband's ashes. On hand are some of the walking wounded of the intoxicant wars...
...longer playing his old role as the Carter family clown. Indeed, in concluding a carefully crafted 27-page opening statement, he said, "I hope this testimony will show in common-sense fashion that Billy Carter is not a 'buffoon,' a 'boob' or a 'wacko,' as some public figures have described...
...gone." Back in Idaho, Church has been ridiculed by one of his traditional backers. Bill Hall, the Lewiston, Idaho, Tribune's editorial page editor, wrote, "It's not a proud moment to have the Senate Foreign Relations chairman from Idaho trying to outdo every right-wing wacko in the Senate...
...Flying Officer Kyte, a feet-off-the-ground burlesque of Britain's wartime flyboys, complete with Samsonian mustaches and a rich flow of RAFfish lingo ("Bang on, wacko, wizard show, I care for that, HA, HA!"). Characteristic Kyte joke: "Whale of a party, sir. I went as radar ... a picture of Queen Anne and a placard pinned to my trousers." Barker: "What did it say?" Kyte: "Dead on the beam...