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...political strategy behind the Administration's economic policy to date At every turn, President Reagan has sought to ascribe favorable economic news to his program of sweeping tax and budget cuts, while blaming downturns on structural factors and Democrats. Only one phrase can properly describe that tactic: having your cake and eating it too. As the President's most recent statements suggest, that opportunism remains the centerpiece of his economic program...
...play, he introduces Wanda June, a 10-year-old girl who has recently arrived in heaven and who describes heaven as a pseudo-country club which everyone's welcome to join. Even Jesus Christ plays shuffleboard there. Wanda June is only tangentially related to the plot: the birthday cake meant for her ends up in the Ryans living room. Susan Morris plays Wanda June with a lot of vitality and youthfulness, but we don't see enough of her; she spends but five minutes on stage. And we're never really sure what she's doing in the play, anyway...
...COULD A French Queen suggest that starving peasants should eat cake? Obviously because she had no desire to come to grips with her subjects' pressing needs. The unnecessary result was that the Parissiennes rapidly came to grips with...
...trapped in the folds of a falling curtain, like big game in a tree trap. The pace slowed: "I can't read my monitor," James Earl Jones rumbled like an Old Testament prophet rebuking his flock. Most of all, the pretension showed: birthday candles were lit on a cake that looked like the Tower of Babel, as discomfited luminaries dished up decades of encapsulated world history in which the Actors' Fund got featured billing ("A Russian named Pavlov used dogs to study conditioned reflexes, and the Actors' Fund was 25 years...
...concurrently, the afternoon events took about five hours. The tracksters all went out to dinner afterwards, however, gorging on weak, chicken, baked potatoes and ice cream at Yale's, in New Haven, on the way back ... Junior Karen Gray turned 20 on Saturday, so the team munched on birthday cake at the restaurant provided by Gray's parents...