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...single vote among the four Senators-a far cry from the arm-twisting, lapel-tugging, browbeating style of Lyndon Johnson. Noting that there were half a dozen Senators on the borderline, Consumer Lobbyist James Plug said, "Lyndon would have got at least one vote out of that bunch." Added a friend: "Hell, Lyndon would have got seven votes...
...mean just who the hell do you guys think you are? You're just a bunch of egg-headed idiots who couldn't cut a tree down if you tried. You guys probably have to go to a gas station when you car's broken, you're so uncoordinated. You guys need a course in life...
...game, you guys ain't got a chance. You're just a bunch of wimps, that's what you are. Skinny little wimps who can't drink to save their lives...
...Nope, you're gonna get kicked all over your little Stadium, and then you can go back to your rooms in those elitist sounding Houses and cry your little eyes out. Winthrop, Eliot, Lowell. Big bunch of babies...
That seems to be the idea behind Lillian Hellman's "Another Part of the Forest," now at the Lyric Stage in Boston. The Hubbards are a juicy enough bunch: the miserly patriarch with a shadowy past; his wife, a religious fanatic; one son who schemes ruthlessly; another who whines and steals; and a daughter who compares unfavorably with Scarlett O'Hara. While Alabama in 1880 isn't a Danish castle, at least it provides a set of usefully poor neighbors and the Ku Klux Klan...