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...race in which the candidates' differences are minimal on issues such as crime, abortion rights, education reform and no new taxes, Van de Kamp, 54, has a strong card in his identification with the Big Green. "The cleverest thing he's done," acknowledged a Feinstein adviser. Being against environmental causes in 1990, Van de Kamp told a conservationist audience in Sacramento, "is like being a communist in Eastern Europe...
...splash in the decade since Bent, provides in A Madhouse in Goa the best new play of a fecund London year that has already brought new efforts from half-a-dozen top dramatists. Structurally, Sherman's show is two one-acts, but they are linked by one of the cleverest devices in memory. The first piece, A Table for a King, is an exquisitely painful tale of betrayals involving a pathetically dignified Mississippi matron, a sweetly awkward American college boy recovering from a thwarted homosexual infatuation, a casually seductive waiter and the sly, implacable owner of a Greek-island hotel...
...time leveraged buyout is one of the cleverest financial gimmicks of all time. An investor group, which often includes some of the target company's top managers, borrows billions to take the firm private by buying its stock from the shareholders. The company's own assets are used as security for the financing. After the deal is completed, the new owners usually try to bring their debt down to a manageable level -- and pick up enormous profits along the way -- by selling off parts of the company piecemeal. In the case of RJR Nabisco, the total market value of popular...
...Administration was desperate to win the release of U.S. hostages from the seized American embassy in Tehran. George Cave, a retired CIA agent then working under a contract with the agency, asked Rafizadeh if Ghorbanifar could help. The former SAVAK agent advised Cave that Ghorbanifar was "one of the cleverest businessmen I have known. He has the habit of coming in as a partner and then taking over the whole operation." Rafizadeh told Cave that Ghorbanifar would never agree to work as a subservient CIA agent. "Then forget it," Cave replied. In a 1981 memo to CIA headquarters, Cave described...
...masterpiece. Neil Simon's book is more often predictable than funny, and the second act neither coheres nor makes much sense. Dorothy Fields' lyrics are much too witty to come from the dim characters. Cy Coleman's so-so score provides two rousing standards, which evoke Fosse's cleverest numbers: the sullenly sexy ensemble come-on in Big Spender, and Allen's sprightly, sprawling solo to If My Friends Could See Me Now. Although Allen belts out the songs and adapts capably to Fosse's jagged, staccato movements, she utterly lacks Charity's doormat vulnerability. Unless she has that quality...