Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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When Alexander Haig replaced H.R. ("Bob") Haldeman as President Nixon's Chief of Staff in May 1973, the Administration still had 14 months of torment ahead. At Haig's Senate confirmation hearings, Democrats probably will dwell on these questions about his shadowy backstage role during those days...
...told Haig, "We do know we have one problem: it's that damn conversation of March 21." That was when Presidential Counsel John Dean warned Nixon about "a cancer growing around the presidency." Nixon suggested that Dean's account of the conversation could be refuted by Haldeman: "Bob can handle it ... Bob will say, 'I was there; the President said ...' " Haig agreed: "That's exactly right." And, suggested Haig, "You just can't recall." But if Nixon did, in fact, remember, he would, of course, be lying...
...Hurt) is a professor at the Harvard Medical School. Years before, he had studied the nature of schizophrenia by immersing his subjects-and later himself-in a dark tank of warm water. Now, continuing his experiment under the apprehensive eyes of his wife Emily (Blair Brown) and his colleagues (Bob Balaban and Charles Haid), Eddie determines that "our other states of consciousness are as real as our waking states. And that reality can be externalized." He imagines, or remembers, himself as primitive man; he becomes that lithe, voracious ape-human...
Daniel Stern (who played the gangliest "cutter" in Breaking Away) fixes his character with a goofy, all-American grin that, by play's end, has become an eerie, all too American grimace. Bob Gunton (Perón in the Broadway Evita) is a pinwheel of energy and Cheshire-cat charms. He brings eccentric life to a gallery of characters who are not really characters at all: they are supporting specters in one naive American's gook sonata. They may all be the same person, or no one at all. And in the play's final image...
...merger or a stock swap but a swap of a different kind:, a trade for a relief pitcher, a third baseman and young outfielder. And, because baseball men are true to the traditions of their anachronistic business, Whitey Herzog, general manager and manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, and Bob Kennedy, general manager of the Chicago Cubs, sat down at a table in the lobby of a Dallas hotel and, while hundreds looked on, made their deal. Baseball's 79th winter meeting-an annual extravaganza that is part Oldtimers' Day, part industry trade fair and part human flesh...